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Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.7M
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
14
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$142,919
Largest grant, FY2020
$3,044,253
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Powers Catholic High School$3,044,2531n/a
The Sisters of St Joseph$306,2551n/a
University of Michigan$204,170177%
Flint Institute of Music$204,17012%
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation$204,170124%
St Matthews Church$71,4591n/a
Villanova University$40,83410%
Flint Institute of Arts$20,41710%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($644k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust

How much does Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust give?
Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $4,739,565 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (65%), Religion (12%), Health (9%).
Who are Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Powers Catholic High School ($3.0M), The Sisters of St Joseph ($306k), University of Michigan ($204k).
Does Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Serra Foundation.
Where is Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust based?
Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 14 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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