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Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870

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.

$202k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$202,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$202,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$863k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$202k100%
FY202414$36k43%
FY202312$122k67%
FY202115$29k40%
FY202015$773k67%
FY201910$41k20%
FY201815$58kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$565kEnvironment$250kArts & Culture$174kPhilanthropy$105kFood & Nutrition$71kHuman Services$19kInternational$19kReligion$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IA
PA
CT
UT
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($631k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Methodist University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetAsbury Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Civil War Museum: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSend Hope Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetChristian Recovery Aftercare Ministry Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Harrisburg Singers: $8,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Historical Association: $5,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetThe Perry Historians: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNew Hope Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run Mid State Pa: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPerry County Council of the Arts: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Valley Young Men's Christian Association: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Spiritual Formation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMedards House: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Lion Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOur Rescue: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllen Community Outreach: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Association of Harrisburg: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGateway of Grace: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Hall Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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.

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About Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870

How much does Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 give?
Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 reported 1 grants totaling $202,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Environment (20%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Southern Methodist University ($250k), Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ($100k), Asbury Foundation Inc ($100k).
Does Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 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 Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, Hall Foundation, United Way of the Capital Region.
Where is Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 based?
Robert H & Beverly U Fowler Fdn-Tr 2870 is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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