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Dian Graves Owen Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+20 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE | $4,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE | $2,516,400 |
| MCMURRY UNIVERSITY | $2,003,500 |
| WEST TEXAS REHAB CENTER | $1,255,500 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $1,175,000 |
| GROVER NELSON PARK ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY | $1,000,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG TENNIS CENTER FOUNDATION | $625,000 |
| ABILENE IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION | $513,302 |
| ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $506,500 |
| DISCIPLESHIP NETWORK OF AMERICA | $400,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG THEATER COMPANY | $375,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $340,000 |
| HARDIN SIMMONS UNIVERSITY | $333,333 |
| FRONTIER TEXAS | $315,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
208 repeat relationships — 147 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
MCMURRY UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +82%- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +42%
- AYABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +54% · 98% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF ABILENEone grant, 2021 · $6.1M
- SUSCHREINER UNIVERSITY TEXAS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $750k
- TGTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $625k · revenue -15%
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.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.
To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas
Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
229 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. 229 of the 367 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GROVER NELSON PARK ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILENE IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Serenity Foundation of Texas ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Regional Crime Victim Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLESHIP NETWORK OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG TENNIS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Create Healthy Management ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of West Central Texas ↗
- Who funds GRACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HEARTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MASON COUNTY COURTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Abilene Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Abilene Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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: The Legett Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Shelton Family Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities
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 Dian Graves Owen Foundation 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.
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.
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