· Private foundation
The Owen Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART MINISTRY CENTER | $135,000 |
| LPIF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOLY NAME SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| AKSARBEN FOUNDATION | $33,250 |
| OPERA OMAHA | $30,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEBRASKA PARKS | $12,500 |
| ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $8,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HMHEART MINISTRY CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $265k · revenue +63%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $104k · revenue +12%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- OFOPAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -67%
- BCBEMIS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
To present a variety of high quality arts programs and exhibits in Omaha for the general public to enjoy and appreciate.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
The foundation's mission is to provide support for education, training and career development for banking and related programs. in addition, the foundation will support federally insured depository institutions and the communities in which…
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 61 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 HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LPIF Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE JET AWARD FOUNDATION & TRUST ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE FAIR BOARD ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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
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.
How this is measured
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