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Ohio · Nonprofit
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) is funded by 129 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,940,257 in grants to it, the largest being Charles Koch Foundation ($1,228,750). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 507 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 507 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
98% of BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$48k from 12 funders in 2025, up from $192k and 21 in 2017.
1 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 funders by total. Association, not causation.
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 64% · 2019 72% · 2020 26% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 19% · 2024 26% · 2025 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
32% of BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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.
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 129 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 129funders 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. view filing