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B B Owen Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +13%
  • 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Gateway Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization B B Owen Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B B Owen Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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