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Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$84k0%
FY202425$85k8%
FY202325$83k12%
FY202227$91k11%
FY202125$85k8%
FY202027$78k4%
FY201926$78k19%
FY201828$78k18%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$389kEnvironment$118kEducation$91kReligion$40kCrime & Legal$26kHealth$23kPublic Benefit$11kSocial Science$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMusic Associates of Aspen Inc: $89,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWaterford Concert Series: $69,388 over 7y, 51% of budgetThe Piedmont Environmental Council: $62,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Madeira School: $34,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Academy of the West: $30,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $26,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPriory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem: $20,778 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Trasimeno Music Festival Inc: $20,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetWaterford Foundation Inc: $20,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetRobert Louis Stevenson School: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Gaineswood Inc: $9,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetMontgomery Chamber Music Organization Inc: $9,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Museum of Art Inc: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington Conservatory of Music: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetShenandoah University: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForest History Society Inc: $4,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGraywolf Press: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHeifetz International Music Institute Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Shakespeare Center: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJourney Through Hallowed Ground Partnership: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Mobile Preservation Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAlabama Shakespeare Festival: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairhope Film Festival Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMount Vernon Virtuosi Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor TrusteeAL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Alabama Humanities Alliance · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department

How much does Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department give?
Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department reported 26 grants totaling $86,888 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Environment (15%), Education (12%).
Who are Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Music Associates of Aspen Inc ($89k), Waterford Concert Series ($69k), The Piedmont Environmental Council ($63k).
Does Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee, Alabama Humanities Alliance, Hearin - Chandler Foundation.
Where is Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department based?
Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department is based in AL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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