· Private foundation
Owens Group Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $4,620 |
| SPRING LAKE TOYS FOUNDATION | $3,323 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| GOFUNDME FAMILY ADOPTION | $1,133 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| EMPOWERING WOMEN THRU MOTION | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY | $1,000 |
| CARE2 FUND AT USLI | $746 |
| CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION | $650 |
| CENTER FOR SAFETY AND CHANGE | $550 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY | $550 |
| HAPPINESS IS CAMPING | $500 |
| FOOD BRIGADE INC | $500 |
| SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SLSpring Lake Toys Foundation Inc DBA- Spring Lake Hope Foundation3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +528%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +39%
- CFCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY7× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +249%
Funded once
- CVCONGERS VALLEY COTTAGE ROTARYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HAHI-TOR ANIMAL CARE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -89%
- HFHOPE FOR UKRAINE INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -26%
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.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
The mission of the daughters of sarah nursing center, inc. is to enhance the quality of life, assure the safety and dignity, and foster the independence of those we serve through residential, personal care, health and other quality…
A non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at risk populations through a spectrum of services. selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bergen County Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America 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 30 years old; the field is 15. 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 12% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 85 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 Spring Lake Toys Foundation Inc DBA- Spring Lake Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds CARE2 FUND AT USLI INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds SIENA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds PASCACK VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AND CAMP SNOWFLAKE ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPINESS IS CAMPING ↗
- Who funds Jawonio Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWAY NETWORK 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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Greater Bergen Realtors Care Foundation Inc · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Bogota Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Walter Henry Freygang Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Webster Bank 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 Owens Group Foundation Inc 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.
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% of income from government
- Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Camp Acorn Inc — 1% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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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