· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $996k
- $250k+9 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR MISSISSIPPI HEALTH POLIC | $902,195 |
| CONVERGE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $449,947 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA | $345,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $339,000 |
| COPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FN | $315,880 |
| MHA HEALTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION | $312,836 |
| Individual grant recipient | $311,448 |
| MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN | $250,000 |
| PHI THETA KAPPA FOUNDATION | $232,000 |
| SINGING RIVER HEALTH SYSTEMS | $216,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $139,243 |
| MS GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $101,000 |
| MS PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $97,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Bower Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 89%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $817k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +19% · 83% of their budget
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +58%- CICONVERGE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $867k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- MSMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -30%
- MNMISSISSIPPI NEWS INFORMATION CORPone grant, 2021 · $229k
- EMEAST MS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIone grant, 2023 · $44k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization provides funding for medical research, educational programs for physicians and others as well as educational assistance for medical students. in addition, the organization provides grants to medical professionals whose…
Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center
Health care foundation of north mississippi is operated exclusively for the purpose of raising, receiving, and administering funds (for medical, scientific, educational and charitable purposes), to assist hospital and non-profit…
North mississippi medical center (nmmc) is a 650-bed regional referral center in tupelo, ms. nmmc serves more than 700,000 people in 24 counties in north mississippi, northwest alabama and portions of tennessee. nmmc is the largest…
Central mississippi health services is dedicated to improving healthcare access and eliminating health disparities within the communities we serve by providing access to quality primary and tertiary healthcare services in an environment…
North mississippi medical clinics, inc. (clinics) owns and operates 34 primary care and internal medicine clinics, all primarily within north mississippi and northwest alabama. clinics is part of the north mississippi health services…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
The organization provides family centered, community oriented and comprehensive health services to the people in mound bayou, ms and the surrounding area.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR MISSISSIPPI HEALTHPOLICY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERGE INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds PHI THETA KAPPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bower Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bower Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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