· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 Central Maryland | $25,000 |
| United Way of Palm Beach County | $25,000 |
| West Jupiter Community Group | $12,500 |
| Williams College | $11,000 |
| Edna Runner Center | $10,000 |
| One Love Foundation | $7,500 |
| The Samaritan Community Inc | $5,000 |
| Tikya Children's Hospital | $5,000 |
| Mount Vernon Place Conservatory | $5,000 |
| Veterans Voice Foundation | $5,000 |
| Open Society Institute | $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 (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 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 +44% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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…
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 99 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 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER CITY LAX ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Samaritan Community 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 International Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Owen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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