Alabama · Private foundation
Lillian C McGowin Foundation
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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Lillian C McGowin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 34 | $83k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $83k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $81k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $89k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $84k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $79k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $91k | 9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church of the Epiphany | $98,000 | 9 | n/a |
| United Methodist Inner City Mission | $26,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Victory Health Partners Inc | $24,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Seven Hills Fire District Inc | $22,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Mobile Baykeeper Inc | $19,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Richards DAR House Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 4% |
| United Methodist Children's Home | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Earth Day Mobile Bay Inc | $17,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Mobile Museum of Art Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Drug Education Council Inc | $13,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($359k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lillian C McGowin Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dog Hill Foundation · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · The Sybil and White Smith Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lillian C McGowin Foundation
- How much does Lillian C McGowin Foundation give?
- Lillian C McGowin Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $83,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lillian C McGowin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Environment (10%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Lillian C McGowin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Church of the Epiphany ($98k), United Methodist Inner City Mission ($26k), Victory Health Partners Inc ($24k).
- Does Lillian C McGowin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lillian C McGowin Foundation 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 Lillian C McGowin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee, Hearin - Chandler Foundation.
- Where is Lillian C McGowin Foundation based?
- Lillian C McGowin Foundation is based in AL.
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