Tony Bowen is Executive Director of the Catalyst Fund at Fidelity Charitable®, an independent 501(c)(3) public charity that has helped donors support more than 406,000 nonprofit organizations with $84.5 billion in grants. The mission of Fidelity Charitable is to grow the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that make charitable giving accessible, simple, and effective.
In his role at the Catalyst Fund, he partners with the Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees to manage a grantmaking program dedicated to building bridges between donors and promising nonprofits. The Catalyst Fund makes grants to intermediaries that engage donors, elevate nonprofits, and conduct research on donors and philanthropy. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy has been a grantee of the Catalyst Fund since 2018.
He is currently co-chair of the Infrastructure Funders Group, on the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Board of Visitors and Giving Tuesday’s Data Commons Advisory Committee, and a Partner with Social Venture Partners Boston.
Tony has worked at community and family foundations, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Democracy Fund, and sector infrastructure organizations such as Candid, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and FMA. He graduated with an M.A. in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University. He lives in Boston.