· Private foundation
The Bowie Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northrise University Initiative | $50,000 |
| Grace Fellowship Church | $36,000 |
| Home Word | $30,000 |
| Mercy House | $18,000 |
| National Christian Foundation | $10,000 |
| Free Wheelchair Mission | $10,000 |
| Every Generation Ministries | $5,000 |
| Antioch Ministries International | $2,500 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,500 |
| The Antioch Partners | $2,500 |
| Children of the Nations Internation | $2,500 |
| Christ Life Ministries | $2,500 |
| Good Samaritan Mission | $1,000 |
| Multiplication Network | $1,000 |
| Relationship 180 | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NUNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE6× · 2019–2024 · $301k · revenue +10%
- COCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +2%
- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- FFFinishing Fundone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SASt Anne Schoolone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +20%
- UCUSC - Cardinal and Goldone grant, 2017 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To engage in local and overseas evangelism, mission training & supports, empowering churches worldwide to live out the short-term mission movement, where chiristians can participate in sharing the gospel and fulfilling the great commission.
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Unknown nations is christian nonprofit organization that delivers the word of god to people who live in areas of the world that are less than 2% christian. this is accomplished through our network of indigenous leaders using solar powered…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Every Generation Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christ Life Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD ↗
- Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Relationship 180 ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FIJI KINDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Stinehart Family Foundation · Cornerstone Legacy Foundation · Optivest Foundation · The Cashion Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · American Endowment Foundation · Servant Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bowie Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.