About

The Jake Owen Foundation was established in 2010 as a registered 501 (C) 3 private nonprofit foundation through the vision and effort by Jake Owen initially to offer financial support on a national level to children battling cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases through St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee while also providing assistance to various youth organizations and charities in Owen’s hometown of 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 supporting the beneficiaries who have been a part of the Foundation since its 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 assisting 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 $6.5 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.