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Icf Foundation John D Ong

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$319kArts & Culture$226kEnvironment$64kReligion$12kFood & Nutrition$11kYouth Development$10kHealth$9kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKRON CIVIC THEATRE$20,000
LAWRENCE SCHOOL$20,000
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY$20,000
PINE POINT SCHOOL$15,000
AMHERST COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$3,500
CASE BARLOW FARM$3,500
HUDSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION$2,500
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$2,500
WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY$2,500
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$2,500
SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$2,500
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMHERST COLLEGE: $10k → 12%MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $4k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $3k → 17%SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%PINE POINT SCHOOL: $15k → 9%SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 13%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 17%JEFFERSON DEPOT VILLAGE: $6k → 17%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MOUNT PLEASANT OHIO: $11k → 19%EPISCOPAL PREACHING FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%AMHERST COLLEGE: $10k → 12%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $3k → 17%SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 17%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MOUNT PLEASANT OHIO: $10k → 19%EPISCOPAL PREACHING FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%AMHERST COLLEGE: $10k → 12%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $3k → 17%SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 17%SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $8k → 17%PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 12%AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $20k → 13%AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $20k → 13%AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $20k → 13%BALDWIN-BUSS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $43k → 13%METROHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $33k → 13%METROHEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $30k → 13%WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $30k → 13%WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 17%HUDSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%BALDWIN-BUSS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $8k → 13%HUDSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%CASE BARLOW FARM: $4k → 13%CASE BARLOW FARM: $4k → 13%CASE-BARLOW FARM: $4k → 13%LAWRENCE SCHOOL: $20k → 13%LAWRENCE SCHOOL: $20k → 13%LAWRENCE SCHOOL: $20k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 20 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$607k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+38%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $103k · revenue +25%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +9%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • SC
    SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL OF HUDSON
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst College Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $60,000 · OtherAKRON CIVIC THEATRELAWRENCE SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOLBALDWIN-BUSS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherBALDWIN-BUSS HOUSE FOUNDATIONHudson Heritage Association: $22,500 · OtherHudson Heritage AssociationHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MOUNT PLEASANT OHIO: $21,000 · OtherHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MOUNT PLEASANT OHIOPINE POINT SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · OtherPINE POINT SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 · OtherSMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $9,500 · Other+6 more: $16,000 · Other+6 moreWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $102,500 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMYST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $30,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+6 more: $19,875 · Education+6 moreWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RE…MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN W…PENINSULA FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA…CASE BARLOW FARM: $10,500 · Arts & CultureCASE BARL…WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN R…THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · HealthEpiscopal Preaching Foundation Inc: $5,000 · ReligionPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $2,500 · InternationalCULTURAL VISTAS INC: $1,000 · InternationalGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$266,500Education$252,375Environment$63,500Arts & Culture$58,000Health$9,000Religion$5,000International$3,500Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $102,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALDWIN-BUSS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPENINSULA FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Heritage Association: $22,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetPINE POINT SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASE BARLOW FARM: $10,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Preaching Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PSI UPSILON FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL VISTAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Burton D Morgan Found…Hudson Community Foun…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Burton D Morgan Foundation IncOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Hudson Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Icf Foundation John D Ong funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Icf Foundation John D Ong. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Icf Foundation John D Ong through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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