· Private foundation
Joyce Miller Owens Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $133,104 |
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 (FY17–23, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
- SISAUVIE ISLAND SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +80% · 49% of their budget
- FOFISH OF VANCOUVER4× · 2017–2023 · $117k · revenue +360%
- SESOUND EQUINE OPTIONS3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- WOWind Oar Boat Schoolone grant, 2017 · $77k
- RHRose Haven Day Shelter and Communitone grant, 2022 · $65k
- TDTHE DALLES-WASCO COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $30k
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 mission of springwater environmental sciences school is to integrate the sciences throughout the academic core curriculum in a nurturing environment created and maintained by a high level of parent and community involvement.
To support the christian home and church by providing a biblically-based education for pre-kindergarten to 12th grades that challenges young lives to grow in faith, knowledge & skill so that they may glorify god and serve others.
Seacoast Christian School is a private not-for-profit non-boarding Christian school. In addition to striving for academic excellence, it seeks to teach students to be life-long servants of God and to live out their faith in all area of…
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
To assist families by proving a Christ-centered bible-based education that inspires each student to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and pursue excellence in moral character, academics, and service to others.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Trusting in Gods guidance, the mission of Cape Charles School is to educate and develop the Whole Child in a non-denominational Christian setting
To create an exemplary academic environment that encourages and expects all students to learn and grow in every aspect of their person and to succeed in life in their chosen vocations.
To create a community where students, staff and families work together to cultivate the academic, social, emotional, and ethical growth of each student.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sauvie Island School and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Duck Hunters Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 32 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
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 SAUVIE ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FISH OF VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds SOUND EQUINE OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY MOUNTAIN MUSTANGS INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon Duck Hunters Association ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Joyce Miller Owens Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sauvie Island School — 2% of income from government
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.