· Private foundation
Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIEDMONT ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION | $6,000 |
| GULF COAST STEINWAY SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| STEVENSON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WATERFORD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $5,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $4,500 |
| WATERFORD CONCERT SERIES | $4,388 |
| MADERIRA SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TRASIMENO MUSIC FESTICAL | $4,000 |
| THE ORDER OF ST JOHN | $3,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ALABAMA CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY VIRGINIA CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +141%
- WCWATERFORD CONCERT SERIES7× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +56% · 51% of their budget
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- ASALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +19%
- HGHOUSTON GRAND OPERA RUDY AVELAR MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $2k
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Associates of Aspen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Air Artists Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD CONCERT SERIES ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds Waterford Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TRASIMENO MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GAINESWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHAMBER MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds AIR ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Historic Mobile Preservation Society Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.