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B B Owen Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Health$2.6MHuman Services$540kEducation$415kReligion$400kFood & Nutrition$270kPublic Safety & Disaster$178kArts & Culture$125kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,179,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$2,179,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $25k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $25k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $25k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $50k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $50k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $50k → 5%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $5k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $5k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 19 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$2.2M
$170k

Still filing today

47%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +17%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +12%
  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • HS
    HEARD SCHIENCE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RM
    RICHARDSON MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Easter Seals North Texas

We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.

Health
2
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
3
Frisco Family Services Center

Help members of our communities who are facing hunger, homelessness, and other urgent needs improve their quality of life and achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
5
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
6
Ability Connection Texas

The mission of ability connection is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities...one person at a time. the cornerstone of our programs are the core values of compassion, respect and results through a personalized approach to address…

Health
7
Lone Star Circle of Care

Lone star circle of care provides exceptional and accessible patient centered healthcare for our texas neighbors, focusing on the underserved.

Health
8
Family and Child Guidance Center

Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…

Health
9
Head Start of Greater Dallas Inc

Head start of greater dallas, inc. provides children with the foundation of skills and knowledge they need to be successful in school and life and fosters self-reliant families and communities.

Education
10
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.

11
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
12
Dallas County Local Workforce Development Board

Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas exists to ensure solutions for employers through quality people and for people through quality jobs.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Gateway Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels Collin County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $2,179,500 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENST JOHNS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $400,000 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF RICHARDSON — $400,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF RICHARDSONSALVATION ARMY — $300,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCITY OF WESTON FIRE DEPT — $177,500 · OtherCITY OF WESTON FIRE DEPTMAURICE BARNETT GERIATRIC CENTER — $150,000 · OtherMAURICE BARNETT GERIATRIC CENTERCOLLIN CO CHILDRENS ADV CENTER — $150,000 · OtherCOLLIN CO CHILDRENS ADV CENTERNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $120,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKCLAYTON DABNEY KIDS WITH CANCER — $75,000 · OtherPRESERVATION DALLAS INC — $75,000 · Other+10 more — $250,000 · Other+10 moreMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $75,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE — $15,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCHASE'S PLACE INC — $15,000 · Education
Health$2,179,500Other$2,097,500Human Services$255,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Education$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $2,179,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY — $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPRESERVATION DALLAS INC — $75,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHASE'S PLACE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOURCALLING INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
  • Who funds PRESERVATION DALLAS INC
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC
  • Who funds THE WARREN CENTER INC
  • Who funds CHASE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE
  • Who funds OURCALLING INC

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 B B Owen 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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