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The Harold J Bowen Jr & Duval Bowen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$638k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$926kPublic Benefit$260kEducation$260kSocial Science$245kHuman Services$205kYouth Development$195kEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $438k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$40,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FUND$30,000
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL$30,000
MYOTONIC DYSROPHY FOUNDATION$30,000
THE LAFFER CENTER$25,000
AIER$25,000
ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FDN$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION$25,000
SKYLAND TRAIL$20,000
CARON TRANSFORMATIONAL CARE$20,000
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN CLUB$20,000
CHASTAIN PARK CONSERVATORY$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AIER: $25k → 12%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%FIRST RESPONDER'S NETWORK: $25k → 8%MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FNDN: $30k → 10%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $40k → 12%CATO INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%THE LAFFER CENTER: $25k → 14%SKYLAND TRAIL: $25k → 14%YOUNG AMERICA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FDN: $25k → 9%AIER: $25k → 12%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%FIRST RESPONDER'S NETWORK: $25k → 8%MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FNDN: $30k → 10%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $40k → 12%CATO INSTITUTE CONTRIBUTION: $50k → 14%THE LAFFER CENTER: $25k → 14%CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FDN: $25k → 9%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%FIRST RESPONDER'S NETWORK: $25k → 8%MYOTONIC DYSROPHY FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $25k → 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%FIRST RESPONDER'S NETWORK: $25k → 8%MYOTONIC DYSROPHY FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $25k → 12%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MYOTONIC DYSROPHY FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%SHEPHERD CENTER FUND: $30k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER FUND: $30k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER FUND: $30k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER FUND: $30k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY: $25k → 13%ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY: $25k → 13%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $30k → 13%ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY: $25k → 13%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $30k → 13%ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY: $25k → 13%ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL: $30k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MT
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 21 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$2.4M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+9%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureSocial ScienceEmploymentEducationOther

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

  • FF
    Foundation for Economic Education Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +38%
  • MD
    MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +54%
  • GW
    GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • WS
    WARDLAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • NW
    NEMOURS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
Fernbank Inc

Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

4
Toccoa Falls College Inc

The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.

Education
5
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
8
Rollins College

Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…

Education
9
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

10
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Economic Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is George West Mental Health Foundation Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $650,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDSHEPHERD CENTER FUND — $140,000 · OtherSHEPHERD CENTER FUNDCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — $130,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY — $125,000 · OtherATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient — $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAIER — $95,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation — $70,000 · OtherCATO INSTITUTE CONTRIBUTION — $70,000 · OtherRONALD REAGAN FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Other+13 more — $278,500 · Other+13 moreMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · HealthMYOTONIC D…GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · HealthGEORGE WES…Foundation for Economic Education Inc — $175,000 · Social ScienceAtlanta Speech School Inc — $110,000 · EducationCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · ReligionBLUE MONARCH — $65,000 · EmploymentTelluride Mountain Club — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsChastain Park Conservancy Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,843,500Health$235,000Social Science$175,000Education$110,000Religion$70,000Employment$65,000Recreation & Sports$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $175,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE MONARCH — $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club — $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTampa Firefighter's Museum Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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 Foundation for Economic Education Inc
  • Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds BLUE MONARCH
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Telluride Mountain Club
  • Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc
  • Who funds Tampa Firefighter's Museum Inc
  • Who funds HISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Harold J Bowen Jr & Duval Bowen Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The Harold J Bowen Jr & Duval Bowen Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Harold J Bowen Jr & Duval Bowen Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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