Florida · Private foundation
The Bowman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $450k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations The Bowman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 22 | $12k | 64% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $10k | 68% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $11k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $10k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $8k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oasis Church | $4,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Liga Contra El Cancer Inc (League Against Cancer Inc) | $3,950 | 5 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,050 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $1,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $1,625 | 4 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $1,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $1,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Appalachian Project Inc | $900 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bowman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bowman Foundation
- How much does The Bowman Foundation give?
- The Bowman Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $11,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bowman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Religion (18%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Bowman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oasis Church ($4k), Liga Contra El Cancer Inc (League Against Cancer Inc) ($4k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($3k).
- Does The Bowman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bowman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bowman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Bowman Foundation based?
- The Bowman Foundation is based in FL.
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