How much did Owens Family Charitable Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of Owens Family Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covidawardsstembuildingyouthbenefitfood

2021

youtheducationmesabi medicalalzheimers diseasedisease disordersdisorders associati

2022

beyond yellowyellow ribbonribbon hibbinghibbing chisholmangel

2023

tennisgirlsnorthboysrangechisholm district

2024

mesabihibbing chisholmequipmentcheever field

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $58k
$10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$50k–250k4 grants · $235k

$3,225

Median grant

States reached

$9.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

HIBBING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$84,500
BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH$50,000
CITY OF HIBBING$50,000
HIBBING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
BOYS CLUB OF DULUTH$25,000
MESABA CONCERT ASSOCIATION$10,000
PROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC$10,000
HIBBING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$9,000
HIBBING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,500
CHISHOLM PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,250
CITY OF HIBBING$5,000
HIBBING-CHISHOLM SOCCER CLUB INC$5,000
TOURIST CENTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC$3,225
MESABI COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA$3,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 32 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+67%

Still filing today

56%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

CM
CENTRAL MESABI MEDICAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
UW
UNITED WAY OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA INC
4× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +32%
RR
RANGE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
5× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +17%

Funded once

GP
GREENHAVEN PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION
one grant, 2021 · $25k
FT
FRENCH TOWNSHIP
one grant, 2022 · $18k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Cloquet Nordic Ski Club

Recreation & Sports

MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Historical Society

Using the power of history to transform lives through educational initiatives, history exhibitions and programs, historic preservation, accessibility to a network of historic sites, publications of Minnesota historical content and archival…

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Humanities Center

To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through stories and experiences.

—

University of Minnesota Alumni

Connecting alumni, students, and friends in support of the university of minnesota and each other.

—

Minnesota Motion Picture and Television

Promotion of film, television and other media production in minnesota.

—

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

—

Run Minnesota

To serve the running community and support runners of all ages and abilities through education, programs, and advocacy. specifically, by developing educational resources and training programs that support and empower runners, facilitating…

Youth Development

Minnesota Council on Foundations

Connecting, strengthening & mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity & equity

—

Minnesota Fishing Museum &

The organization was created for the purpose of developing an attraction and a museum to collect, preserve, and display the artifacts of the sport of fresh water angling; and to perform a program of recognition of persons and organizations…

Arts & Culture

Possabilities of Southern Minnesota

Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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Itasca County Historical Society

To connect people to the history of Itasca County

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ironworld Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 27. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/45

the rest of the field

95/1,417

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.

05the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,876,142Health$123,993Education$64,250Human Services$51,475Youth Development$40,000Philanthropy$17,100Arts & Culture$7,732

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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN29.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Northland Foundation · Security State Bank Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Community Foundation · United Way of Ne Minnesota · C K Blandin Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community · Minnesota Power Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 organisation Owens Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTRAL MESABI MEDICAL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 410916605 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTRAL MESABI MEDICAL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Owens Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Owens Family Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Owens Family Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Owens Family Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Owens Family Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Owens Family Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph