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.

George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust

George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$368k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$764kEducation$661kHuman Services$475kYouth Development$199kArts & Culture$143kHealth$143kHousing & Shelter$83kMembership Benefit$75kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $103k
$10k–50k19 grants · $215k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$9,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
BLACKSHERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL	$10,000
AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER	$10,000
MARION COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC	$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION	$10,000
WEST FAIRMONT MIDDLE SCHOOL	$10,000
HOMESTEAD FARM CENTER	$10,000
FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
BPOE #338 MANNINGTON ELKS LODGE	$10,000
MARION COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 55 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+36%

Still filing today

44%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

OF
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +238%
YS
YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%
CF
CRITTENTON FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +2%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $25k
BF
BLESSINGS FROM THE BASEMENT
one grant, 2021 · $20k
MC
MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2022 · $15k

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.

04Its field

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.

Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement

Family Service of Marion & Harrison Counties Inc

To provide personal care and counseling services for the development of wholesome family life

Human Services

Housing Development Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter

Wirt County Health Services Association Inc

Provision of primary and preventive care services to the rural population of wirt, jackson, and wood counties in west virginia and the surrounding areas.

Health

Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services

Wheeling Mt Zion Cemetery Corporation

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.

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Wv Helping Hands

Human Services

West Virginia Rural Health Association Inc

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,…

Health

McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc

To provide services to senior citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia.

Human Services

Mountaineer Community Health Center

To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.

Health

Adult Day Care of Martinsville & Henry County

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…

Human Services

Summers County Council on Aging Inc

Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crittenton Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 105 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/41

Grantees still filing

23/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,086,137Human Services$344,485Recreation & Sports$205,000Health$85,000Arts & Culture$82,500Philanthropy$77,000Education$68,000

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Encova Foundation of West VirginiaWV34.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home