How much does The Owenoke Foundation give?

The Owenoke Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $750,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Owenoke Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), International (14%), Religion (11%).

Who are The Owenoke Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Pauls Lutheran Church ($257k), Americares Foundation Inc ($250k), The Adirondack Council Inc ($240k).

Does The Owenoke Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Owenoke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Owenoke Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Peoples United Community Foundation, Aetna Foundation Inc.

Where is The Owenoke Foundation based?

The Owenoke Foundation is based in SC.

The Owenoke Foundation

The Owenoke Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$750k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$878kInternational$653kReligion$503kFood & Nutrition$474kHousing & Shelter$442kEnvironment$409kHuman Services$402kEducation$331kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $37k
$10k–50k32 grants · $613k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF	$50,000
ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH	$50,000
ADIRONDACK COUNCIL	$30,000
ST MICHAEL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH	$30,000
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER	$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM	$25,000
NEW CANAAN GROUP HOME INC	$25,000
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE	$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC	$25,000
PARKTOWN FOOD HUB	$25,000
URBAN MINISTRIES OF DURHAM	$25,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK	$25,000
AMERICARES	$25,000
AMI KIDS BEAUFORT	$23,000
V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 48 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+92%

Still filing today

69%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TA
THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +49%
CC
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +80%
LW
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +33%

Funded once

PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CONNECTICUT
one grant, 2017 · $20k
RA
REAL ART WAYS
one grant, 2023 · $10k
FR
FAMILY REENTRY INC
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -89%

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.

04Its field

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.

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Habitat for Humanity North Central Connecticut

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…

Housing & Shelter

Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health

Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Health Care Without Harm

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…

Environment

Norwalk Community Health Center

To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.

Health

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health

Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health

Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

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…

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New Neighborhoods Inc

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/44

Grantees still filing

36/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,538,000International$653,000Health$599,000Human Services$304,000Environment$271,000Education$235,000Housing & Shelter$125,000

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.

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Owenoke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Owenoke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home