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Owings 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.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$330kHuman Services$268kFood & Nutrition$209kReligion$87kHousing & Shelter$65kInternational$57kCrime & Legal$46kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SET FREE ALLIANCE$15,000
HARVEST HOPE$15,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
MEYERS CENTER$15,000
JASMINE RD$10,000
SAFE HARBOR$10,000
DREAM CENTER$8,000
EMERSON ROSE HEART FOUNDATION$8,000
GREENVILLE FREE MED CLINIC$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$2,000
LET THERE BE MOM$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PENDLETON PLACE: $7k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $6k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $6k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $3k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $2k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $1k → 10%LET THERE BE MOM: $1k → 10%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-9%

Still filing today

52%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Human ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +186%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +34%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BS
    BON SECOURS NEUROSCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • BS
    BON SECOURS - CHEST PAIN CTR
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • UH
    UNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +52%
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.

1
Freedom House

Freedom house is a long-term, addiction-recovery program that rescues, restores, and redeems the lives of women and their children in a christ- centered, family environment. in july 2006, freedom house admitted its first residents and…

Health
2
Greenwood Pathway House Foundation

Foundation to invest legacy gifts restricted to benefit greenwood pathway house inc (ein 45-0833715) located in greenwood, sc. pathway house's mission is to help homeless persons navigate a pathway to physical, financial, and social…

Philanthropy
3
Food Bank of Greenwood County

The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.

Food & Nutrition
4
Hope Missions of the Upstate

HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.

Religion
5
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
6
Meals On Wheels of Greenville Inc

Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.

Food & Nutrition
7
South Georgia Potters House for Women Inc

Our mission is to help women find freedom, healing, and wholeness thorugh an intimate relationship with jesus christ, allowing god to order what has been disordered.

Human Services
8
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

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9
Hope Street Ministry Inc

Hope street provides housing and healing to men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. empowered by the active grace of christ,…

Health
10
United Methodist Children's Home

To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…

Human Services
11
Hospice House of Greenville

The organization's mission is the operation of hospice house.

Human Services
12
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Drake Rayden Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEYERS CENTER: $130,500 · OtherMEYERS CENTERMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $101,250 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCPHYLLIS WHEATLEY CENTER: $80,000 · OtherPHYLLIS WHEATLEY CENTERSET FREE ALLIANCE: $64,000 · OtherSET FREE ALLIANCEBON SECOURS NEUROSCIENCE CENTER: $50,000 · OtherBON SECOURS NEUROSCIENCE CENTERDREAM CENTER: $47,000 · OtherDREAM CENTERLOAVES FISHES: $38,000 · OtherA Child's Haven Inc: $37,000 · OtherGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $32,000 · OtherBON SECOURS - CHEST PAIN CTR: $30,000 · Other+15 more: $116,000 · Other+15 morePROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE F…SAFE HARBOR INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR IN…PENDLETON PLACE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPENDLETON PLAC…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $101,000 · HealthCANCER SURV…EMERSON ROSE HEART FOUNDATION: $19,000 · HealthEMERSON ROS…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $86,250 · Food & NutritionHARVEST H…TRIUNE MERCY CENTER: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTRIUNE ME…JASMINE ROAD INC: $56,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE): $8,000 · International
Other$725,750Human Services$158,000Health$121,000Food & Nutrition$101,250Crime & Legal$56,000Community Improvement$25,000International$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $101,250 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $101,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $86,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSET FREE ALLIANCE: $64,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $62,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC: $56,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $37,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEMERSON ROSE HEART FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE): $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrake Rayden Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLET THERE BE MOM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SET FREE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds PENDLETON PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON ROSE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE) ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Drake Rayden Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LET THERE BE MOM INC ↗

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.

Dabo's All in Team FoundationSC26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · W W Burgiss Charities Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Yeargin Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Kellett Family Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville

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 Owings Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owings Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 37 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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