· Private foundation
The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $614k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM | $275,000 |
| MERITUS SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE | $200,000 |
| MARYLAND THEATRE | $115,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $106,789 |
| EASTERSEALS DC MD VA | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $92,519 |
| STAR COMMUNITY INC | $30,000 |
| SAN-MAR CHILDRENS HOME INC | $27,500 |
| DOWNSVILLE RURITAN CLUB | $25,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL (HARC) | $20,000 |
| LANDON'S PROJECT - LANDON'S PUZZLE PIECES | $20,000 |
| WILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC | $10,100 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY INC | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED | $7,915 |
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 (FY17–24, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- AOARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +60%
- FMFAHRNEY-KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME INC AKA FAHRNEY-KEEDY HOME AND VILLAGE7× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +87%
- P2PLATOON 22 INC3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLEone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +16%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WWWILLIAMSPORT WILDCAT ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -71%
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.
The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
Volunteer fire department: provide fire fighter services and protection for residences of howard county
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
To provide training and support to local member fire and rescue companies.
Provide protection of life and property through fire prevention, suppression and emergency medical services to the community of owings mills and the citizens of baltimore county
To make quality hospice care available to persons with life threatening illnesses, their families, and those affected by death and dying in our community; to advocate effectively for patient comfort, dignity, and choice; and to be…
Fire protection and rescue services.
Volunteer fire protection serving people of accident and the vicinity, in garrett county, maryland, from loss or damage by fire and assist the rescue squad
To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.
Operate a volunteer fire department for the protection of life and property from fire.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hickory Ridge High School Bandboosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 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. 53 of the 115 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 HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAHRNEY-KEEDY MEMORIAL HOME INC AKA FAHRNEY-KEEDY HOME AND VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds PLATOON 22 INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE & EMS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOK LANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERITUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT WILDCAT ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC/AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
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 Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Pauline K Anderson Foundation Inc · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Michael G Callas Charitable Trust · Beachley Foundation Inc
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 Jone L Bowman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Meritus Health Foundation Inc — 94% of income from government
- Washington County Arts Council Inc — 56% of income from government
- San Mar Children's Home Inc — 29% of income from government
- Washington County Commission On Aging Inc/Area Agency On Aging — 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Williamsport Volunteer Fire & Ems Inc — 2% of income from government
- Star Community Inc — 2% of income from government
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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