Illinois · Private foundation
The Owen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $114,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Owen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $250k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $217k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $219k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $227k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $182k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $178k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $174k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $169k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois State University Foundation | $764,900 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $186,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $169,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Eureka College | $118,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lifelong Access | $57,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Home Sweet Home Ministries Inc | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mid Central Community Action Inc | $32,000 | 9 | 0% |
| International OCD Foundation Inc | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $26,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Mondos Mission Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($227k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Owen Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Owen Foundation
- How much does The Owen Foundation give?
- The Owen Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $249,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Owen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Human Services (10%), Health (5%).
- Who are The Owen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Illinois State University Foundation ($765k), University of Illinois Foundation ($186k), Illinois Wesleyan University ($169k).
- Does The Owen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Owen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Owen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc, Parker Kemp Foundation, United Way of McLean County.
- Where is The Owen Foundation based?
- The Owen Foundation is based in IL.
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