· Private foundation
William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of WILLIAM & LOUISE OWENS CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITEFIELD ACADEMY | $64,500 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY | $16,100 |
| NEVER THIRST | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE FREE DENTAL CLINIC | $10,000 |
| SAMFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BLANKET FORT HOPE | $5,000 |
| GRACEPOINT SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ENTER THE LION | $3,000 |
| GLOBAL SERVICE ASSOCIATES | $2,500 |
| SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- GSGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +87%
- WAWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +81%
Samford University5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +189%
- LCLEGACY COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $8k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
To offer a challenging christ-centered liberal arts experience and co-curricular programs that transform students' lives by integrating liberal arts with career-oriented studies and service to god & the world.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Winebrenner theological seminary equips leaders for service in god's kingdom.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.
Reformed theological seminary (rts) exists to glorify the triune god and to serve his church in all branches of evangelical christianity, especially presbyterian and reformed churches, by providing reformed graduate theological education…
Shaped by the historic peace church tradition and nourished by a desire for excellence in all phases of its programs, bluffton university seeks to prepare students of all backgrounds for life as well as vocation, for responsible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nema Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gracepoint School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 46 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 GRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEVERTHIRST INC ↗
- Who funds BLANKET FORT HOPE ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE & HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABLEGAMERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENTER THE LION ↗
- Who funds JULIES DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLA INTERNATIONAL ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NEMA FOUNDATION 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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.