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The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$267k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$192,750
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$267k33%
FY20246$208k0%
FY20234$258k0%
FY20226$185k0%
FY20216$103k0%
FY20207$103k0%
FY20197$200kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$135kHealth$130kRecreation & Sports$18kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Red Bull Theater Inc$1,025,500718%
Fountain House Inc$130,00060%
High Mountain Institute Inc$52,50060%
Yale University$50,0001n/a
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$17,50070%
Project Cuddle Inc$17,50073%
Allegheny College$17,50070%
Astoria Food Pantry Inc$2,5001n/a
Manhattan Class Company Inc$1,30010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust

How much does The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust give?
The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $266,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (10%), Health (10%).
Who are The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Red Bull Theater Inc ($1.0M), Fountain House Inc ($130k), High Mountain Institute Inc ($53k).
Does The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust based?
The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust is based in TX.

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 11 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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