· Private foundation
William K Bowes Jr 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+18 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $5,833,333 |
| J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES | $2,000,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA | $1,000,000 |
| THE EXPLORATORIUM | $1,000,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $850,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA | $500,000 |
| KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS | $500,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC | $375,000 |
| CANARY FUND | $333,334 |
| TEACH FOR ALL INC | $333,334 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $333,333 |
| OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA | $250,000 |
| SANSUM DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
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, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of William K Bowes Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 77%.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TETHE EXPLORATORIUM5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +32%
- TJTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +41%
- KBKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINEone grant, 2020 · $2.5M
- HUHARVARD UNIVERSITY (HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE)one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- FFOODCORPSone grant, 2021 · $600k
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 mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
How this is measured
73 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. 73 of the 80 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (NSSF) ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FRIDAY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM LEAP HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Koret Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Bothin Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William K Bowes Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William K Bowes Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
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