Does Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department

Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department at a glance

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Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department

Q: 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%).

Q: 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).

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% 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

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PIEDMONT ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL	$8,000
DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION	$6,000
GULF COAST STEINWAY SOCIETY	$6,000
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL	$5,000
WATERFORD FOUNDATION	$5,000
STEVENSON SCHOOL	$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 NATURE CONSERVANCY VIRGINIA CHAPTER	$3,000
THE ORDER OF ST JOHN	$3,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ALABAMA CHAPTER	$3,000
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$728k · 41 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$728k

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+19%

Still filing today

56%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MA
MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +141%
WC
WATERFORD CONCERT SERIES
7× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +56% · 51% of their budget
TP
THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +161%

Funded once

AS
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +19%
MB
MOBILE BOTANICAL GARDENS
one grant, 2023 · $2k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $2k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

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.

Arts & Culture

Midsummer Mozart Festival

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…

Arts & Culture

Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education

Smithsonian Institution

*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.

Arts & Culture

Vanguard Concerts

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Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture

Foundation for Modern Opera

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Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

American Chamber Ensemble Inc

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.

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San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Associates of Aspen Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

24/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$291,721Arts & Culture$288,509Environment$68,600Education$68,300Civil Rights$26,000Health$20,778Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty R McGowin Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trust Department. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home