· Private foundation
The Herman and Hazel Owen Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| COLUMBUS LOWNDES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS OF LOWNDES COUNTY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| 100 WOMEN WHO CARE | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Herman and Hazel Owen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herman and Hazel Owen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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