· Private foundation
John R Oltman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ASPCA | $7,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $5,000 |
| PETA | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY | $3,000 |
| THE VAIL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS I FUND | $2,500 |
| CAREGIVER CONNECTIONS | $2,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MT OLIVE ACADEMIC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| KANE COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION | $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, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
140 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- ARALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +128%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +80%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- BFBRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
- DUDELTA UPSILON INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +31%
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
To protect animals by creating systemic change resulting in the humane treatment of all animals. we create policies, infrastructure, and services that protect animals and strengthen our communities, and we design and implement humane and…
Since our founding in 1883, the mission of aavs has been to unequivocally oppose and work to end the use of animals in science and to oppose all forms of cruelty to animals. we achieve our mission by monitoring and investigating scientific…
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kane County Farm Bureau Foundation. 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 37 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 11% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 162 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 ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Mt Olive Academic Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ABLELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
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: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datlo · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust
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 John R Oltman Charitable 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.