Florida · Private foundation
Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,751
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $174k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $242k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $215k | 94% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $250k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $184k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $264k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $207k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $234k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern University | $353,430 | 5 | 0% |
| Biola University Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Baptist Homes Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Virginia Baptist Convention | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alderson Broaddus University Inc | $22,690 | 5 | 0% |
| Liberty University Inc | $20,072 | 4 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $14,808 | 4 | n/a |
| Emmanuel Baptist Church | $13,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Ashland University | $10,715 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern University | $353,430 | 5 | 0% |
| Biola University Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Baptist Homes Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Virginia Baptist Convention | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alderson Broaddus University Inc | $22,690 | 5 | 0% |
| Liberty University Inc | $20,072 | 4 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $14,808 | 4 | n/a |
| Emmanuel Baptist Church | $13,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Ashland University | $10,715 | 3 | 0% |
| Cedarville University | $10,102 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Charleston Inc | $9,183 | 2 | 0% |
| Princeton Theological Seminary | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vienna Baptist Church | $4,635 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Evangelical Seminary | $3,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Appalachian Bible College Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Simmons College of Kentucky Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Canyon University | $2,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Samford University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America | $1,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Fayetteville Baptist Church | $940 | 1 | n/a |
| Gassaway Baptist Church | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Relational Wisdom 360 | $630 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hope Community Church | $620 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakwood Baptist Church | $600 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 214 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust
- How much does Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust give?
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust reported 52 grants totaling $173,909 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Religion (7%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastern University ($353k), Biola University Inc ($70k), Baptist Homes Foundation ($40k).
- Does Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franklin W & Helen S Bowen 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 Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Ibm International Foundation, Carter Family Foundation.
- Where is Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust based?
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust is based in FL.
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