· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ALEX DESHELTER CO CEDARVILLE UNIV | $7,000 |
| MATT EASTER CO MT VERNON NAZARENE UNIV | $7,000 |
| DEVIN FREEMAN CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| TURAN RUSH CO NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CASEY DAWSON CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $4,950 |
| MICHELLE DAWSON CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $4,950 |
| JILLENE NARRAWAY CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $4,839 |
| OLIVIA TUNNELL CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $4,352 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| COLE LINDER CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $3,842 |
| JORDAN CASTO CO EASTERN UNIVERISTY | $3,651 |
| ANDREW KIDDLE CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $3,611 |
| CLAIRE COTTRILL CO EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $3,522 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +75%
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +15%
- GTGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $24k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WVWEST VIRGINIA BAPTIST CONVENTIONone grant, 2021 · $23k
- PTPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2018 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 241 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds EASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Carter Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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