Delaware · Private foundation
Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation
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.
- $342k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $282k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $249k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $258k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $183k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $107k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $119k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $119k | 95% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $166k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | $275,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Center for Higher Education in the Middle East Inc | $200,809 | 7 | 67% |
| Center for Civilians in Conflict | $190,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pollinate Group | $158,048 | 5 | 79% |
| Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning | $83,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hofstra University | $57,801 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $35,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Mjr Love Inc | $22,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Trans Formative Schools Inc | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ploughshares Fund Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($331k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
Compare Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation with peer funders
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About Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation
- How much does Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation give?
- Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $341,989 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), International (26%), Arts & Culture (22%).
- Who are Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Facing History & Ourselves Inc ($275k), Center for Higher Education in the Middle East Inc ($201k), Center for Civilians in Conflict ($190k).
- Does Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard and Sandra Otterman 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 Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation based?
- Bernard and Sandra Otterman Foundation is based in DE.
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