· Private foundation
Owen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Owen Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Owen Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $386k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k44 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chesapeak Bay Foundation | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| St Ignatius Loyola Academy | $34,000 |
| Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust | $30,000 |
| United Way of Palm Beach County | $25,000 |
| United Way of Central Maryland | $25,000 |
| West Jupiter Community Group | $12,500 |
| Williams College | $11,000 |
| Edna Runner Center | $10,000 |
| One Love Foundation | $7,500 |
| Teach For America | $5,000 |
| The Samaritan Community Inc | $5,000 |
| Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum | $5,000 |
| Open Society Institute | $5,000 |
| Roland Park Community Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2022, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- WJWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC6× · 2017–2022 · $605k · revenue +159% · 26% of their budget
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $280k · revenue +53%- KBKIPP BALTIMORE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HCHONDA CLASSIC CARES CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CRCRITICAL REPAIRS CAROLINE COUNTY MARYLAND INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Golf Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Society Institute. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 99 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 WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Samaritan Community Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER CITY LAX ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ST CHRISTOPHER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds International Neighbors 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Rogers-Wilbur Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Trp Shawe Fndatn
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 Owen 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.
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hearts for Moms Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Real Life Children's Ranch Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.