· 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 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 $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 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| AR CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY FOUND | $20,000 |
| ARKANSAS TECH UNIV FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WESLEY FOUNDATION ARKANSAS TECH | $11,000 |
| ACCESS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK | $5,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| CAMP ALDERSGATE | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +73% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +99%
- ATARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +33%
- CACAMP ALDERSGATE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- FOFOUR OTHER ORGANIZED CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $15k
- ASArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +32%
- CFCALS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 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 CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William H Bowen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William H Bowen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on William H Bowen Family’s filings →