· Private foundation
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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POWERS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,044,253 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE - | $306,255 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH | $306,255 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $204,170 |
| ASCENSION GENESYS FOUNDATION | $204,170 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $204,170 |
| UNITED WAY OF GENESEE | $142,919 |
| SAINT JOSEPH PARISH | $127,287 |
| ST MATTHEWS CHURCH | $71,459 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LANSING | $61,251 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $40,834 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $20,417 |
| BOYSVILLE | $4,083 |
| FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME | $2,042 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
5 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. 5 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Serra Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferdinand a & Agnes M Bower Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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