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Owen Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hope Givers | $23,500 |
| Animal Care Control Philadelphia | $8,500 |
| Andys Friends | $7,500 |
| Norwood School | $7,000 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Fdn | $7,000 |
| Childrens National Hospital | $5,000 |
| Williams College | $5,000 |
| Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center | $5,000 |
| Clay Studio | $5,000 |
| Calvary Womens Service | $5,000 |
| Childrens Inn at NIH | $3,000 |
| Bright Beginnings | $3,000 |
| College of Holy Cross | $3,000 |
| St Columba Episcopal Church | $2,000 |
| Rehoboth Art League | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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.
39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NSNORWOOD SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +34%
- CWCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +28%
Williams College6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +51%
Funded once
KENYON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +37%- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +40%
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.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Morris Animal Refuge and the most unlike its peers is Bright Beginnings Inc. 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 37 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE CLAY STUDIO ↗
- Who funds ANDY'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ABANDONED PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION AND LIFECARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT BLUES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY AT HAAFSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
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: Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Forman Family Foundation · Michael J and Patricia Levitt Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Chubb Charitable 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 Owen Family 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.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% 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.
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