Georgia · Private foundation
The Ra Bowen Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $421k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Ra Bowen Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 65 | $419k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $395k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $374k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $332k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $313k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $283k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Corporation of Mercer University | $258,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Wesleyan College | $227,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Stratford Academy Inc | $107,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Goodwill Works Foundation Inc | $93,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Meals on Wheels of Middle Georgia Inc | $82,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Museum of Arts & Sciences Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Samford University | $59,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $52,750 | 6 | n/a |
| Navicent Health Foundation Inc | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival | $40,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($750k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ra Bowen Trust 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Robins Financial Credit Union · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · Ej Grassmann Trust · Martin Foundation Inc · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · Ia Ga Pine Level Fdn Non-Direct · The Thomas C Burke Foundation · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust
How this is measured
About The Ra Bowen Trust
- How much does The Ra Bowen Trust give?
- The Ra Bowen Trust reported 67 grants totaling $421,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ra Bowen Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Arts & Culture (10%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Ra Bowen Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Corporation of Mercer University ($259k), Wesleyan College ($227k), Stratford Academy Inc ($107k).
- Does The Ra Bowen Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ra Bowen Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ra Bowen Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Griffith Family Foundation Inc, The Peyton Anderson Foundation.
- Where is The Ra Bowen Trust based?
- The Ra Bowen Trust is based in GA.
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