· Private foundation
The Owen Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YMCA BLM-NRML CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EUREKA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL OCD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OASIS COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| MONDO'S MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MID CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CENTRAL IL | $5,000 |
| CARLE HEALTH CENTER | $3,000 |
| ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 58 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 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 ↗
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.
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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.
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