Mississippi · Private foundation
The Bower Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $902,195
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $134M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Bower Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $932k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $5.1M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $4.4M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $4.6M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $5.1M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $4.6M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy | $1,629,101 | 3 | 4% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $1,343,484 | 4 | n/a |
| Women's Foundation of Mississippi | $1,305,575 | 4 | 83% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $1,094,105 | 5 | 0% |
| Inspire Health Inc | $1,058,837 | 6 | 95% |
| Converge Inc | $867,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Singing River Health System | $809,458 | 2 | n/a |
| Deep South Today | $753,357 | 2 | 5% |
| Phi Theta Kappa Foundation | $383,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Mississippi Public Health Institute | $281,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy | $1,629,101 | 3 | 4% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $1,343,484 | 4 | n/a |
| Women's Foundation of Mississippi | $1,305,575 | 4 | 83% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $1,094,105 | 5 | 0% |
| Inspire Health Inc | $1,058,837 | 6 | 95% |
| Converge Inc | $867,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Singing River Health System | $809,458 | 2 | n/a |
| Deep South Today | $753,357 | 2 | 5% |
| Phi Theta Kappa Foundation | $383,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Mississippi Public Health Institute | $281,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Magnolia Speech School | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Northeast Mississippi Community College Development Foundation Inc | $86,600 | 3 | 2% |
| Hinds Community College Foundation | $56,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jackson Free Clinic | $52,975 | 2 | 92% |
| Itawamba Community College Foundation Inc | $48,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Mothers' Milk Bank of Mississippi | $38,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Meridian Community College Foundation | $21,600 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bower Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Mississippi Community College Foundation · 2nd Chance Ms · Community Foundation for Mississippi · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Bower Foundation
- How much does The Bower Foundation give?
- The Bower Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $5,146,136 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bower Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (56%), Education (16%), Employment (7%).
- Who are The Bower Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy ($1.6M), University of Southern Mississippi ($1.3M), Women's Foundation of Mississippi ($1.3M).
- Does The Bower Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bower Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bower Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, Mississippi Community College Foundation, 2nd Chance Ms.
- Where is The Bower Foundation based?
- The Bower Foundation is based in MS.
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