· Private foundation
William H Bowen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UAMS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $25,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $24,000 |
| ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE | $24,000 |
| AGE TO AGE WESLEY FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| AR CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY FOUND | $20,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ARKANSAS TECH UNIV FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WESLEY FOUNDATION ARKANSAS TECH | $11,000 |
| ACCESS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK | $5,000 |
| ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL | $5,000 |
| CAMP ALDERSGATE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- AHARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +124%
- ATARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +33%
- CACAMP ALDERSGATE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- ASArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +32%
- FOFOUR OTHER ORGANIZED CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CFCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
Usher in leadership & policies that make arkansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
To provide services to low income individuals.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
To render constructive civic service, including the sponsorship of social, educational, and economic projects for the promotion of the welfare of the community and the citizens of the ozarks situated in baxter, boone, marion, newton,…
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Provide help to domestic violence victims and encourage community efforts to promote domestic peace.
Common ground arkansas is an arkansas nonprofit public policy advocacy organization corporation dedicated to educating, equipping, and engaging arkansas citizens and leaders to take action on important economic and legislative issues that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Potluck Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING 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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · John R & Judy W Fletcher Family Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Heflin Family Foundation Trust · Clarence E Anthony Charitable Trust · Brown Foundation · Arkansas Children's Hospital · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas
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 William H Bowen Family Foundation 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.
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.