Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BOWERBIRD INC
BOWERBIRD INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $793,310 to it, the largest being The University of the Arts ($385,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOWERBIRD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Wyncote Foundationshared funders
- Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 20% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of BOWERBIRD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $88k → $61k.
From the IRS filings of BOWERBIRD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOWERBIRD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOWERBIRD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 89% · 2019 97% · 2020 51% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of BOWERBIRD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of BOWERBIRD INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wyncote Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stockton Rush Bartol Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Independence Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 101 organizations that share your funders · funds 238 organizations near you
- The Julian a and Lois G Brodsky Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- The Barra Foundation Incshared funderslocalPA · backs 103 organizations that share your funders · funds 222 organizations near you
- The Patricia Kind Family Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 203 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BOWERBIRD INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOWERBIRD INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOWERBIRD INC?
- BOWERBIRD INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $793,310 to it, the largest being The University of the Arts ($385,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOWERBIRD INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $793,310 in grants to BOWERBIRD INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWERBIRD INC?
- The University of the Arts is the largest funder on record, with $385,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWERBIRD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 8funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing