Nebraska · Private foundation
The Owen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $553k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations The Owen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $553k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $967k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $225k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $345k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $212k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart Ministry Center | $265,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Opera Omaha Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $104,000 | 4 | 0% |
| LPIF Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Opas Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vita Nova Maternity Community | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| St Margaret Mary | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| United Way of the Midlands | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council | $19,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Jet Award Foundation & Trust | $15,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Owen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Parker Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Owen Foundation
- How much does The Owen Foundation give?
- The Owen Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $552,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Owen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (41%), Philanthropy (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are The Owen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Heart Ministry Center ($265k), Opera Omaha Inc ($110k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($104k).
- Does The Owen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% 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 The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Hawks Foundation.
- Where is The Owen Foundation based?
- The Owen Foundation is based in NE.
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