· Private foundation
George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNINGTON BOARD OF PARKS AND | $50,000 |
| NORTH MARION HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CRITTENTON FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| MANNINGTON CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUND | $13,000 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| EASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER | $10,000 |
| BROOKE CEMETERY COMPANY | $10,000 |
| WEST FAIRMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MARION COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $10,000 |
| BLACKSHERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BPOE #338 MANNINGTON ELKS LODGE | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +238%
- YSYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC7× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%
- CFCRITTENTON FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- BFBLESSINGS FROM THE BASEMENTone grant, 2021 · $20k
- MEMONONGAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
To provide personal care and counseling services for the development of wholesome family life
Promote and advance decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons of low and moderate income, the elderly, disadvantaged or infirm, in the cabell- wayne counties and surrounding metropolitan area of west virginia.
Provision of primary and preventive care services to the rural population of wirt, jackson, and wood counties in west virginia and the surrounding areas.
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
Administer and maintain mt zion cemetery as a place of internment or burial in ohio county, wv as well as to promote and protect its historic character and educational value.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
To provide services to senior citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia.
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To enrich lives of adults, age 18 and over,who are limited due to illness, accident, old age or birth defect, by providing daytime assistance with a combination of social, cognitive and recreation services so they can remain at home with…
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crittenton Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worthington Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CRITTENTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds West Augusta Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTING LINK INC ↗
- Who funds Mannington Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds IDAMAY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEAD FARM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.