· Private foundation
The Owen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TECHNOSERVE | $40,000 |
| PEO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SC EDUCATIONAL FUND | $20,000 |
| CLARKSON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| OFFICE OF FOUNDATION RELATIONS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| SANDHILL COVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE MILITARY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| DANIEL ISLAND CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND | $10,000 |
| MARK GARWOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION GOOD CHEER FUND | $5,000 |
| AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING | $5,000 |
| EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL 1974 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION GOOD CHEER FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
25 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- TITECHNOSERVE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +26%
- MGMARK GARWOOD FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +133%
- ASAIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- UEUS ED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RSRIVERSIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GHGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +6%
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.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…
To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
1. to support the educational, research, and healthcare mission of the medical university of south carolina (musc) by fostering creativity and innovation. 2. to initiate and sustain cooperation and collaboration between musc and business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Gaillard Management Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Daniel Island Club Employee Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 42 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 TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARK GARWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DANIEL ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILL COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL ISLAND CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
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.