· Private foundation
The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED BULL THEATER INC | $192,750 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC | $2,500 |
| ASTORIA FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND | $2,500 |
| PROJECT CUDDLE INC | $2,500 |
| ALLEGHENY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| MCC THEATER | $1,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its 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.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RBRED BULL THEATER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +101%
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $50k
- AFASTORIA FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue +119%
- MCMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INCone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 RED BULL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CUDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard & Marcia Owens Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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