· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OFFICE OF FOUNDATION RELATIONS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| CLARKSON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| AIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| MARK GARWOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE MILITARY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SANDHILL COVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DANIEL ISLAND CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND | $10,000 |
| 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 | $5,000 |
| POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION GOOD CHEER FUND | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITECHNOSERVE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +26%
- MGMARK GARWOOD FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +157%
- ASAIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- UEUS ED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RSRIVERSIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GHGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +32%
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.
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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 42 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 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 RIVERSIDE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds SANDHILL COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL ISLAND CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND ↗
- Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Owen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Owen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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