North Dakota · Nonprofit
BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,002 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Arc - Little Missouri Inclocal
- The Oscar C Rixson Foundation Incportfolio match
- Vogel Charities Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH’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
BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
“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.
Where its funders are
68% of BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Dakota, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
- Arc - Little Missouri InclocalND · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Oscar C Rixson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vogel Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutheran Legacy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glory of Zion International Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Believers Stewardship Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asi Missions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cornerstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew Wommack Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oldham Little Church Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Florida Outreach Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indianapolis Center for Congregations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH: 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 BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH?
- BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,002 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,002 in grants to BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 2funders 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