· Private foundation
The Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Memorial Fund
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $935k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATON - UCLA OPERATION MEND | $130,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $130,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $120,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $115,000 |
| LUCILLE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD | $115,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL CENTER | $110,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $110,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $55,000 |
| YOUNG & HEALTHY | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $30,000 |
| UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES | $25,102 |
| ISABEL'S CHANCE | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPasadena Hospital Association Ltd9× · 2017–2025 · $928k · revenue +25%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $533k · revenue +145%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY5× · 2017–2021 · $475k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IMINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +1%
- LULAC & USC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $29k
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.
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PASADENA BIO COLLABORATIVE INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISABELS CHANCE ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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