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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $349k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AG BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING | $1,440,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $332,667 |
| MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTERDIVISION OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY | $250,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $155,200 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $71,978 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $67,892 |
| HANDS & VOICES | $54,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $12.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
Hearts for Hearing Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $11M · revenue +291% · 37% of their budget- LAListen and Talk6× · 2017–2022 · $8.1M · revenue +113% · 59% of their budget
- CVCHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +2% · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- AGA G Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Heone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
- CICENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAFone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +12%
- MSMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -39%
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.
Potomac River Clinics mission is to equip children and adults with hearing loss and their families with a foundation for lifelong learning through listening and spoken language and to build productive partnerships in research, professional…
At CCHAT Center, our singular mission is to teach children who are deaf or hard of hearing to develop the necessary speaking, listening, and communication skills required for lifelong success. Mastery of these core areas allows students…
Hsdc is a western washington service hub for clients who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who face communication barriers. we envision an inclusive, accessible world, where everyone is understood and respected.
Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.
HEAR Center (the "Center") is a non-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to helping people at all stages of life be a part of the hearing and speaking world. The Center believes communication through speech and hearing is a vital…
The professional, scientific, and credentialing association for clinical and research based audiologists and speech-language pathologists. empowering and supporting speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and…
Clarke provides children, who are deaf or hard of hearing with the listening, learning and spoken language skills they need to succeed.
The organization was formed to provide hearing and speech evaluation and rehabilitation services to the public.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Hearing health foundation's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.
To unlock potential for individuals with communication challenges.
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Speech School and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 53 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 78 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 Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MOOG CENTER FOR DEAF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Listen and Talk ↗
- Who funds THE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NY ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HASKINS LABORATORIES INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR ME NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds AUDITORY VERBAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds LISTEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VOICES ↗
- Who funds THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION ↗
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: 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
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 Oberkotter 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% 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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