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Owens Family Foundation Inc

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.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$338kEducation$245kFood & Nutrition$105kCommunity Improvement$78kHealth$28kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$9kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $360
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION OF B'NAI JESHURUN$100,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$15,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$10,000
URBAN PATHWAYS INC$360
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $10k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $10k → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$725k · 9 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$725k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+1%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HM
    Horace Mann School
    4× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +21%
  • DT
    DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $78k · revenue +32%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -4%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
5
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
United Way of New York City

Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and…

Philanthropy
12
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION OF B'NAI JESHURUN: $307,800 · OtherCONGREGATION OF B'NAI JESHURUNTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $27,500 · OtherTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATIONJDC: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $43,005 · Other+7 moreHorace Mann School: $140,000 · EducationHorace Mann SchoolWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYBARNARD COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGEDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: $78,000 · EnvironmentDESIGN TRU…WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$398,305Education$235,000Environment$78,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$30,000Arts & Culture$19,500Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHorace Mann School: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC: $78,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $9,145 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN PATHWAYS INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Owens Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owens Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Owens Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Owens Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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