· Private foundation
Keown 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOC | $99,668 |
| ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $29,500 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $26,500 |
| IOLA MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $17,500 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| BLINN COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| DISCIPLES ONLY BIBLE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CROSS BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| ENON FIRST BAPTIST MISSIONARY CHURCH | $7,500 |
| EVERGREEN FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| BEDIAS BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| BEDIAS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SE TEXAS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGRIMES COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $901k · revenue +17%
- ETEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +34%
- LULeTourneau University6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- MBMISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $13k
- CFCROSS FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 1464× · 2022–2025 · $10k
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 houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 81 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.
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: San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Rc Caffarelli Educational Fund Frost Bank Trustee · Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation · The Callaway Foundation · The Buddy Bostick Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Keown Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keown Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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