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Nathan M Ohrbach Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Environment$141kHousing & Shelter$47kYouth Development$30kRecreation & Sports$28kArts & Culture$23kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$17kCivil Rights$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$585k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY STONE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP$17,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$13,000
REDWOOD TRAILS ALLIANCE$10,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$10,000
HARPER FOR KIDS$7,500
SAVE MOUNT DIABLO$6,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$5,000
LANDPATHS$5,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BORDER ANGELS: $5k → 11%FEED THE SECOND LINE: $5k → 23%THE FIRST 72: $5k → 23%THE RAINBOW TRANSFORMATIONS FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
LA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$243k · 12 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$243k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +3%
  • ST
    SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +24%
  • HF
    Harper For Kids Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RAINBOW TRANSFORMATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • TR
    THE RHYTHM STUDION (CAF AMERICA FISCAL SPONSOR)
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -61%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
2
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
3
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

4
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

5
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
6
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
7
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
8
Runners for Public Lands

We empower runners to protect public lands, engage in climate action, and expand access to nature for all. Runners are motivated to be involved in their local communities to protect cherished landscapes and expand access to nature.…

Environment
9
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
10
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
11
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
12
Elkhorn Slough Foundation

The Elkhorn Slough Foundation's mission is to conserve and restore Elkhorn Slough and its watershed, California's largest tidal salt marsh south of San Francisco Bay. Renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, Elkhorn Slough features a…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justice Outside and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $46,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCMIRIAM'S HOUSE — $17,500 · OtherMIRIAM'S HOUSETHE RHYTHM STUDIO (CAF AMERICA FISCAL SPONSOR) — $17,361 · OtherTHE RHYTHM STUDIO (CAF AMERICA FISCAL SPONSOR)UC BERKELEY STONE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP — $17,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY STONE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWAR…REDWOOD TRAILS ALLIANCE — $10,000 · OtherREDWOOD TRAILS ALLIANCETHE RHYTHM STUDION (CAF AMERICA FISCAL SPONSOR) — $6,000 · OtherLOS COURAGE CAMPS — $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) — $5,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC+3 more — $7,000 · OtherSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $30,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUENATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $24,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION…LandPaths — $10,000 · EnvironmentLandPathsSmith River Alliance Inc — $10,000 · EnvironmentSmith River Alliance IncEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUN…Harper For Kids Inc — $29,500 · Youth DevelopmentHarper For…SAVE MOUNT DIABLO — $27,000 · Recreation & SportsSAVE MOUN…THE RAINBOW TRANSFORMATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesThe First 72 — $5,000 · Human ServicesFeed the Second Line — $5,000 · Human ServicesBORDER ANGELS — $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $14,500 · HealthINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS — $7,000 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$141,361Environment$79,000Youth Development$29,500Recreation & Sports$27,000Human Services$22,500Health$14,500Crime & Legal$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $46,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarper For Kids Inc — $29,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSAVE MOUNT DIABLO — $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD TRAILS ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLandPaths — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmith River Alliance Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe First 72 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeed the Second Line — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBORDER ANGELS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic 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 Nathan M Ohrbach 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nathan M Ohrbach Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nathan M Ohrbach Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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