Bow Foundation

Analysis

Bow Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Charlottesvle, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bow Foundation reported income of $370k and spending of $237k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $205k to $370k (+81%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bow Foundation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rarerising ($370k), Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation Inc ($370k) and Wezesha US Inc ($370k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $615k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $615k.