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Fulton Owen Foundation 139990-000 at a glance

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Fulton Owen Foundation 139990-000

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$305k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$425kFood & Nutrition$239kInternational$81kHealth$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$69kPhilanthropy$69kEducation$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$75,000
FEED MORE$60,000
NOURISH UP$35,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK METROLINA$35,000
LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA$25,000
Baskerville Food Pantry$25,000
SPAN CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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 (FY22–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $12k → 9%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%NOURISH UP: $35k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
VA
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
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 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
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
2
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
3
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
4
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc

The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…

Human Services
5
Nhrmc Home Care

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
6
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
7
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
8
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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9
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
10
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
11
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
12
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $69,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & I…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $68,900 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCFamilies Forward Charlotte Inc: $68,900 · Human ServicesFamilies Forward Charlotte IncNourish Up: $35,000 · Human ServicesNourish UpLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INCChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $12,000 · Human ServicesKIDS FIRST OF THE CAROLINAS: $69,000 · OtherKIDS FIRST OF THE CAROLINA…SHRINERS CHILDRENS: $68,900 · OtherSHRINERS CHILDRENSBaskerville Food Pantry: $25,000 · OtherBaskerville Food PantryIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSPAN CENTER: $25,000 · OtherSPAN CENTERCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $12,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherFEED MORE INC: $133,900 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INCSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $35,000 · Food & NutritionSecond Harvest Foo…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUN…NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $69,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA C…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $69,000 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $10,000 · HealthAllegro Foundation Inc: $16,000 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $16,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB: $12,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · International
Human Services$278,800Other$234,900Food & Nutrition$168,900Philanthropy$144,000Religion$69,000Health$55,000Education$54,000International$12,000

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 budgetFEED MORE INC: $133,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $69,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $69,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $69,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $68,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Forward Charlotte Inc: $68,900 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAllegro Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriendship Trays Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Merancas Foundation I…Dominion Energy Chari…Duke Energy FoundationLucille P & Edward C …George W & Ruth R Bax…Herndon FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Merancas Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation · George W & Ruth R Baxter Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Fulton Owen Foundation 139990-000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fulton Owen Foundation 139990-000. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Fulton Owen Foundation 139990-000 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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