· Private foundation
The Herman and Hazel Owen Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS INC | $25,000 |
| LAST HOUSE ON THE BLOCK | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN TRIANGLE HOMELESS COALITION | $6,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES SOUP KITCHEN OF LOWNDES COUNTY | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CAMP RISING SUN | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS OF LOWNDES COUNTY | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS LOWNDES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| 100 WOMEN WHO CARE | $200 |
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 (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HHHELPING HANDS INC10× · 2017–2026 · $249k
- TLTHE LAST HOUSE ON THE BLOCK INC5× · 2022–2026 · $35k · revenue +66%
- LALOAVES AND FISHES SOUP KITCHEN OF LOWNDES COUNTY9× · 2018–2026 · $25k
Funded once
- FIFATHERS IN THE FIELDone grant, 2023 · $4k
- LCLIFE CHOICES CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $2k
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.
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
To provide decent affordable housing and transitional housing, emergency shelter, and support needs housing to lower income individuals and families.
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Provide low income elderly housing.
Provide low income elderly housing
To develop and preserve housing in Kootenai County that our low-income neighbors and our local workers can afford. We want to provide not just a place to live, but a place to build a future, for all residents living in our county.
Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults
Neighborhood housing services of southern nevada, inc (nhssn) purpose is to provide affordable housing, homeownership, education and neighborhood revitalization in targeted areas throughout southern nevada to low and moderate-income…
To provide low-income housing.
To provide high quality housing that is affordable to low to moderate income area residents and to create opportunities for them to improve their lives and revitalize the community.
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Cooperative Housings mission is to provide affordable, shared living residences and services for low to moderate income older adults and some special needs adults. The Corporation is dedicated to helping these individuals to enjoy adequate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Mississippi Medical Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Last House On the Block Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 45 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 THE LAST HOUSE ON THE BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN TRIANGLE REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RISING SUN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUSLOWNDES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Herman and Hazel Owen 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.
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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