· Private foundation
The Owenoke Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $613k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| ADIRONDACK COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES OF DURHAM | $25,000 |
| AMERICARES | $25,000 |
| NEW CANAAN GROUP HOME INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $25,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM | $25,000 |
| PARKTOWN FOOD HUB | $25,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| AMI KIDS BEAUFORT | $23,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- TATHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +49%
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +79%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CONNECTICUTone grant, 2017 · $20k
- NWNoah Webster House Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +112%
- FRFAMILY REENTRY INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -89%
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Hartford area habitat for humanity is dedicated to strengthening communities by empowering low-income families to change their lives and the lives of future generations through homeownership opportunities. this is accomplished by working…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parktown Food Hub. 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 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 62 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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN GROUP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TEAM TOBATI INC ↗
- Who funds Parktown Food Hub ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE INC ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Peoples United Community Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation · The Auerbach Schiro Foundation · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation
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 Owenoke 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Town Players of New Canaan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford Inc — 0% of income from government
- Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.