About
The Jake Owen Foundation is a 501 (C) 3 private nonprofit established as the vision and personal passion of country music superstar Jake Owen. In a two-fold initiative both on a national and local level, the organization provides financial support to children battling cancer and other life-threatening childhood diseases throughout the country (in association with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN) and lends assistance to various youth organizations and charities in Owen's hometown, Vero Beach, Florida, and surrounding Indian River County.
Today, the Jake Owen Foundation is proud to be able to expand its mission of helping people in the places they call home, all while continuing to support the beneficiaries who have been a part of the Foundation since it's inception. Our helping hands are able to reach out anywhere and everywhere to make a difference — raising funds through private donations, brand partnerships, and special events. The JOF is able to assist child and youth programs, education, healthcare, fitness, nutrition, enrichment and crisis care. By supporting organizations and charitable partners everywhere, the Jake Owen Foundation is evolving into a national charity, with a local approach. To date the Jake Owen Foundation has raised more than $7.5 million dollars for charitable causes and for other nonprofit organizations.
Funding for the nonprofit Jake Owen Foundation and providing aid is generated primarily through monies raised from the annual Jake Owen Benefit Concert, Songwriters Showcase and the Jake Owen Flamingo Golf Classic held each year in Vero Beach. It does not stop there however. The ultimate goal of the Jake Owen Foundation is to grow its mission worldwide.
In 2017 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Jake Owen received the prestigious “Arnie Award”- named for the iconic golfer Arnold Palmer - alongside Phil Mickelson and Peyton Manning. Golf Digest gives the award to the most charitable golfers on the course, “Golfers who give back,” recognizing Owen for his many charitable contributions through the Jake Owen Foundation.
Jake Owen was also recently honored in name of the Jake Owen Foundation with a new state of the art synthetic turf youth baseball field and sports complex bearing his name in his hometown of Vero Beach providing “a fun and safe environment for kids in the area to play as well as character education programs and clinics for local youth.” The Jake Owen Field and complex was funded in partnership by the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and the Kevin Harvick Foundation and donated in large due to their personal relationships and shared beliefs of community support through their respective foundations.
“The Jake Owen Foundation is one of the most fulfilling things I have ever been involved with. What matters is, the kind of person you are. Your character …. Your legacy. What have YOU done for others? Music in my life has been great to me but the one thing I will always be most proud of and look back on ….. and be able to share with my daughters ….. are things that compliment your character. Giving back has always been important to me in everything I do.” - Jake Owen