· Private foundation
The Owen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $114,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LIFELONG ACCESS | $10,000 |
| OASIS COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MONDO'S MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL OCD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YMCA BLM-NRML CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CENTRAL IL | $5,000 |
| EUREKA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MID CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $5,000 |
| WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BLMNORMAL | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- ISILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $765k · revenue +24%
University of Illinois Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +127%- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $169k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ATALLIN TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ACADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +18%
- PCPET CENTRAL HELPSone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +76%
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided with the best options and opportunities to live safely, work productively, explore creatively, learn continuously and play pleasurably throughout their…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Youth and Family Solutions and the most unlike its peers is Parker Kemp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 58 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 ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EUREKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG ACCESS ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MID CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds International OCD Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM MCLEAN ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION OF BLOOMINGTON NORMAL ↗
- Who funds PET CENTRAL HELPS ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds PARKER KEMP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Parker Kemp Foundation · United Way of McLean County · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · The Growmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.