· Private foundation
The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY INC | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED | $7,915 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 115 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 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF HALFWAY MD INC ↗
- 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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