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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “bower”
Where the money went
The Community Foundation forJacksonville, FLCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $395,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — bower lyman fellowship
Largest: $115,000 to BOWERS MUSEUM — art access program
Largest: $141,193 to Mississippi College — scholarships - f. anderson, j. bower, e. brassfield, j. childress, c. cook, a. decker, e. ethis, j. fulton, e. hammons, q. hencricks, a. pannell, a. pool, s. pool, n. van, l. wilso…
Largest: $10,000 to LEYTEN BOWERS — university of wisconsin - stout & whitewater college scholarship
Pasadena Community FoundationPasadena, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2025Largest: $100,000 to Bowers Museum — project support
Orange County Community FoundationIrvine, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $270,400 · through 2024Largest: $76,000 to CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION — arts and culture
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance FoundationLexington, KYCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $141,000 · through 2024Largest: $46,000 to WAR HORSES AT ROSE BOWER — thoroughbred aftercare
Largest: $40,592 to EMMA-KATHERINE BOWERS — scholarship grants for undergraduate study
Largest: $31,524 to UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — college scholarships for anupreet chhabra, abigail bowers, tonarious cochran, dulce perez-angeles
Friends of Bowers Farm CorporationBloomfield Hills, MICharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $295,153 · through 2024Largest: $240,021 to BLOOMFIELD HILLS SCHOOLS — support for charles l. bowers farm and discovery garden fund
Vntc Ttee Bower Center for the Arts CharitablValley Forge, PA
3 matching grants · $195,528 · through 2024Largest: $78,399 to BOWER CENTER FOR THE ARTS — support of charitable
Largest: $5,000 to CHARLES BOWERS MUSUEM — operating funds
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →