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The Bowman Family Charitable Fund at a glance

· 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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$60kPhilanthropy$60kInternational$39kHuman Services$28kCommunity Improvement$25kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 4 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$99k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+163%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PZ
    PROJECT ZAWADI INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +105%
  • UL
    URBAN LIFE MINISTRIES INCORPORATED
    2× · 2021–2024 · $30k
  • PF
    PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue -31%

Funded once

  • SM
    SIGNPOST MISSIONWORKS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • KF
    KITCHENS FOR GOODgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +163%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR AFRICAN ASSISTANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +364%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New Door Opportunities

Feeding the homeless population in san d

Food & Nutrition
2
Somali Family Service of San Diego

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.

Human Services
3
Kidzcare Africa

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…

International
4
Zawadi Fund International

Care and education of highly vulnerable children and youth in Kenya.

International
5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
7
Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
8
The Lobiko Initiative

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…

Religion
9
Womens Empowerment International

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.

International
10
Forward Edge International

Our vision is to see people around the world overcome spiritual and material poverty through jesus christ.

International
11
Zoe Empowers

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…

International
12
Building Schools in Africa
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PROMISES2KIDS Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $59,549 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Community ImprovementLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSIGNPOST MISSIONWORKS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSIGNPOST MISSIONWORKSALLIANCE FOR AFRICAN ASSISTANCE: $5,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR AFRICAN ASSISTANCEURBAN LIFE MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $30,000 · OtherURBAN LIFE MINISTRIES INCORPORATEDLA JOLLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherLA JOLLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATIONKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $5,000 · OtherKITCHENS FOR GOODPROJECT ZAWADI INC: $34,000 · EducationPROJECT ZAWADI I…HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $7,500 · Human Services
Community Improvement$89,549Other$85,000Education$34,000Youth Development$15,000Human Services$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $59,549 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ZAWADI INC: $34,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNPOST MISSIONWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFRICAN ASSISTANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bowman Family Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bowman Family Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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