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Henry C & Jane G Otten Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRU | $6,000 |
| GALLATIN COUNTY LOVE | $5,000 |
| WYOMING CATHOLIC COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $4,000 |
| SUDAN RELIEF FUND | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONCERN | $2,000 |
| VISION BEYOND BORDERS | $2,000 |
| ZOE CARE | $2,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENDON HOME | $2,000 |
| RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| TIBETAN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOUNDA | $2,000 |
| OPEN DOORS | $1,500 |
| MONTANA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- GCGALLATIN COUNTY LOVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +113%
- WCWyoming Catholic College8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +121%
- RFRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- LILOVE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
- GVGALLATIN VALLEY FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $1k
- HFHope For The Warriorsone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -25%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
Unknown nations is christian nonprofit organization that delivers the word of god to people who live in areas of the world that are less than 2% christian. this is accomplished through our network of indigenous leaders using solar powered…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
To advance the christian faith through the training of leaders in the church of jesus christ, empowering the poor, and networking existing christian ministries for the greater effectiveness of all.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Winding branch ranch's mission is to rescue, revive, and rehome farm animals in need while educating communities about humane, ethical, and sustainable farming practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Doors International Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwoods Animal Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 18% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 57 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 GALLATIN COUNTY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tibetan Children's Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS ↗
- Who funds International Christian Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SACRED PORTION CHILDRENS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds NEW MOUNT CARMEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds ROC WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UGANDA ORPHANS FUND ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Henry C & Jane G Otten Foundation 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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