· Private foundation
The Bowman Family Charitable Fund
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA JOLLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| URBAN LIFE MINISTRIES INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $7,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- PZPROJECT ZAWADI INC4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +105%
- ULURBAN LIFE MINISTRIES INCORPORATED2× · 2021–2024 · $30k
- PFPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue -31%
Funded once
- SMSIGNPOST MISSIONWORKSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -7%
- KFKITCHENS FOR GOODgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +163%
- AFALLIANCE FOR AFRICAN ASSISTANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +364%
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.
Feeding the homeless population in san d
Somali Family Service, guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees and other underserved communities in San Diego through its programs that promote health, educational and economic success, and leadership development.
Kidzcare Africa is a fundraising arm for Kidzcare Tanzania. The Mission is to endeavour to assist children in Tanzania, to enhance the lives of disadvantaged, orphaned, and vulnerable children through the following programs of a Children's…
Care and education of highly vulnerable children and youth in Kenya.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.
The lobiko initiative's mission is to advance the holistic development of children to lead a purpose-driven life of wellbing, equip a generation of leaders that empower transofrmational change, and promote the necessary infrastractures for…
Womens Empowerment funds econcomic empowerment programs including small business loans, training, education, and other vital poverty alleviation strategies for women experiencing poverty. More on Schedule O.
Our vision is to see people around the world overcome spiritual and material poverty through jesus christ.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PROMISES2KIDS Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ymca of San Diego County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ZAWADI INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGNPOST MISSIONWORKS ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR AFRICAN ASSISTANCE ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bowman Family Charitable Fund 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.