· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $133,104 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +64% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +200%
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joyce Miller Owens Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joyce Miller Owens Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sauvie Island School: 2% of income from government
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