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William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$220k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$54,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 28
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationAnimalsHealthHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$220k23%
FY202425$210k4%
FY202323$190k13%
FY202224$153k21%
FY202128$220k29%
FY202028$173kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$414kReligion$244kHealth$71kInternational$51kHuman Services$38kHousing & Shelter$32kArts & Culture$28kScience & Tech$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Bible Church Inc$239,3006n/a
Whitefield Academy Inc$154,00050%
Gracepoint School Inc$119,00061%
Samford University$75,00060%
Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc$70,00062%
Neverthirst Inc$45,00050%
Blanket Fort Hope$36,00063%
Cumberland Community Church Inc$25,5003n/a
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Oak Mountain Church$24,5003n/a
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Bible Church Inc$239,3006n/a
Whitefield Academy Inc$154,00050%
Gracepoint School Inc$119,00061%
Samford University$75,00060%
Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc$70,00062%
Neverthirst Inc$45,00050%
Blanket Fort Hope$36,00063%
Cumberland Community Church Inc$25,5003n/a
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Oak Mountain Church$24,5003n/a
Alpha Delta Pi Foundation$16,00040%
Southwest Christian Hospice & Hope House Inc$10,00020%
Enter the Lion$8,00035%
The Ablegamers Foundation Inc$7,00020%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$5,0001n/a
Julies Dream Inc$3,00030%
Leadership Ministries Inc$3,00020%
Brenau University Inc$2,00020%
Reasons to Believe$1,50010%
Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$1,00010%
Sol & Son Dual Language Academy$1,0001n/a
Breakthrough T1d$1,00010%
Turning Point Inc$1,0001n/a
Villa International Atlanta Inc$1,00010%
Both Hands Foundation$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhitefield Academy Inc: $154,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGracepoint School Inc: $119,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSamford University: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetNeverthirst Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBlanket Fort Hope: $36,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha Delta Pi Foundation: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwest Christian Hospice & Hope House Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEnter the Lion: $8,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetThe Ablegamers Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJulies Dream Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrenau University Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReasons to Believe: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVilla International Atlanta Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoth Hands Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL17.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust

How much does William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust give?
William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $220,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Religion (26%), Health (7%).
Who are William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Bible Church Inc ($239k), Whitefield Academy Inc ($154k), Gracepoint School Inc ($119k).
Does William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust 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 William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Servant Foundation, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
Where is William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust based?
William & Louise Owens Charitable Trust is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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