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Oberkotter 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$155,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,440,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 47
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$214M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Oberkotter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$2.4M14%
FY20249$3.4M0%
FY202313$3.4M0%
FY202247$62M21%
FY202138$8.6M26%
FY202033$7.2M6%
FY201932$8.3M13%
FY201839$10M26%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$70MEducation$29MHuman Services$15MArts & Culture$220k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hearts for Hearing Foundation$11,001,169637%
The Moog Center for Deaf Education$10,497,042867%
Listen and Talk$8,115,000659%
The Auditory Oral School of Ny$7,800,000558%
Child's Voice School$7,368,163867%
Foundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center$5,775,000466%
Haskins Laboratories Inc$3,159,634517%
Atlanta Speech School Inc$3,099,25085%
Utah State University$1,429,5757n/a
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$1,092,10740%
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All grantees of Oberkotter Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hearts for Hearing Foundation$11,001,169637%
The Moog Center for Deaf Education$10,497,042867%
Listen and Talk$8,115,000659%
The Auditory Oral School of Ny$7,800,000558%
Child's Voice School$7,368,163867%
Foundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center$5,775,000466%
Haskins Laboratories Inc$3,159,634517%
Atlanta Speech School Inc$3,099,25085%
Utah State University$1,429,5757n/a
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$1,092,10740%
Hear Me Now Inc$1,088,844677%
Center for Hearing and Communication$1,015,28269%
Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc$900,000813%
Ohio Valley Voices$842,500514%
Speech & Hearing Center of the Midsouth Dba Memphis Oral School for the Deaf$805,735621%
Auditory Verbal Center Inc$805,000629%
St Joseph Institute for the Deaf$785,4115n/a
Listen Foundation Inc$770,000654%
University of Chicago$647,66720%
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital$575,00020%
Idaho State University$515,8775n/a
Tucker Maxon School$502,77258%
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children$500,00033%
Central Institute for the Deaf$500,00015%
Northern Voices$497,500537%
The Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education$467,500215%
The Center for Hearing and Speech$360,00043%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$336,19130%
Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego$330,24030%
Hands & Voices Inc$304,00076%
Depaul School for Hearing and Speech$300,00025%
The Care Project$297,500352%
All Ears Listening and Language Center$250,000132%
John Tracy Clinic$250,00013%
Summit Speech School$250,00016%
Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Inc$250,00011%
Magnolia Speech School$250,00014%
University of Miami$250,00010%
The Treehouse Project$220,000155%
The University of Vermont Medical Center$134,28720%
University of Minnesota Foundation$128,00020%
HEAR Wisconsin Inc$114,00024%
Healthy Hoosiers Foundation Inc$102,750266%
Butler University$71,97810%
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation$26,57120%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($39M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Oberkotter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $11,001,169 over 6y, 37% of budgetThe Moog Center for Deaf Education: $10,497,042 over 8y, 67% of budgetListen and Talk: $8,115,000 over 6y, 59% of budgetThe Auditory Oral School of Ny: $7,800,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetChild's Voice School: $7,368,163 over 8y, 67% of budgetFoundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center: $5,775,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetHaskins Laboratories Inc: $3,159,634 over 5y, 17% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $3,099,250 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $1,092,107 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHear Me Now Inc: $1,088,844 over 6y, 77% of budgetCenter for Hearing and Communication: $1,015,282 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetLexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc Dba the Hearing & Speech Center Inc: $900,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetOhio Valley Voices: $842,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetSpeech & Hearing Center of the Midsouth Dba Memphis Oral School for the Deaf: $805,735 over 6y, 21% of budgetAuditory Verbal Center Inc: $805,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetListen Foundation Inc: $770,000 over 6y, 54% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $647,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $575,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTucker Maxon School: $502,772 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetSunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children: $500,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCentral Institute for the Deaf: $500,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNorthern Voices: $497,500 over 5y, 37% of budgetThe Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education: $467,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Center for Hearing and Speech: $360,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $336,191 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego: $330,240 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHands & Voices Inc: $304,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetDepaul School for Hearing and Speech: $300,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetThe Care Project: $297,500 over 3y, 52% of budgetAll Ears Listening and Language Center: $250,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetJohn Tracy Clinic: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSummit Speech School: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBuffalo Hearing & Speech Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMagnolia Speech School: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Treehouse Project: $220,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetThe University of Vermont Medical Center: $134,287 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $128,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $114,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHealthy Hoosiers Foundation Inc: $102,750 over 2y, 66% of budgetButler University: $71,978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Southern Mississippi Foundation: $26,571 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX10.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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Find your warmest path to Oberkotter 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.

About Oberkotter Foundation

How much does Oberkotter Foundation give?
Oberkotter Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $2,371,737 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Oberkotter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), Education (26%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Oberkotter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hearts for Hearing Foundation ($11M), The Moog Center for Deaf Education ($10M), Listen and Talk ($8.1M).
Does Oberkotter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Oberkotter 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 Oberkotter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is Oberkotter Foundation based?
Oberkotter Foundation is based in PA.

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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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