· Private foundation
The Ra Bowen 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $248k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER UNIVERSITY | $31,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $30,000 |
| STRATFORD ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $29,750 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $28,750 |
| GOODWILL WORKS FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA | $12,500 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GA | $10,000 |
| MACON LITTLE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CENTRAL GA | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,750 |
| CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL | $8,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
76 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $259k · revenue +19%
- WCWESLEYAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +30%
- SASTRATFORD ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIESone grant, 2021 · $6k
- CGCENTRAL GA GSAone grant, 2022 · $3k
- RCROTARY CLUB OF MACON NORTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +102%
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Md Anderson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 102 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 THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL WORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE GEORGIA ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds JAY'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN PINK INC ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
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: 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
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 The Ra Bowen 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.
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.