West Virginia · Private foundation
George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $368k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 33 | $368k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $340k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $302k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $376k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $350k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $325k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $288k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $311k | 66% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oglebay Foundation Inc | $205,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Youth Services System Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Crittenton Foundation Inc | $68,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Disability Action Center Inc | $67,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Marion County Senior Citizens Inc | $59,950 | 3 | 2% |
| West Virginia Botanic Garden Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Marion County Humane Society | $50,000 | 4 | 4% |
| West Augusta Historical Society | $47,000 | 6 | 42% |
| The Connecting Link Inc | $43,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Mannington Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund Inc | $38,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Eqt Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Firstenergy Foundation · The Driehorst Family Foundation · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Robinson S Parlin Trust · Ann Sonneborn Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust with peer funders
About George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust
- How much does George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust give?
- George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust reported 42 grants totaling $368,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (26%), Education (22%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oglebay Foundation Inc ($205k), Youth Services System Inc ($80k), Crittenton Foundation Inc ($68k).
- Does George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Encova Foundation of West Virginia, Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc, Eqt Foundation.
- Where is George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust based?
- George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust is based in WV.
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