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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $349k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$155,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$214M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOHN TRACY CENTER: $250k → 14%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $7.3M → 16%HEAR Wisconsin: $64k → 17%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $500k → 16%Hearts for Hearing: $1.1M → 16%HEAR Wisconsin: $50k → 17%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $101k → 16%Hearts for Hearing: $825k → 16%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $67k → 16%Hearts for Hearing: $776k → 16%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $67k → 16%Hearts for Hearing: $650k → 16%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $50k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $450k → 16%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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CO
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OK
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108M · 55 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
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Total granted

$108M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

62%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Hearts for Hearing Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $11M · revenue +291% · 37% of their budget
  • LA
    Listen and Talk
    6× · 2017–2022 · $8.1M · revenue +113% · 59% of their budget
  • CV
    CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +2% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • AG
    A G Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of He
    one grant, 2017 · $1.4M
  • CI
    CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +12%
  • CA
    CARLE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
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
Potomac River Clinic

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…

Education
2
Children's Choice for Hearing and Talking Sacramento

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…

Education
3
Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center

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.

Health
4
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children

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.

Education
5
Hear Center

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…

Health
6
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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…

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7
Clarke Pennsylvania Inc

Clarke provides children, who are deaf or hard of hearing with the listening, learning and spoken language skills they need to succeed.

Education
8
The Lexington Hearing & Speech Center Inc

The organization was formed to provide hearing and speech evaluation and rehabilitation services to the public.

Human Services
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
10
Hearing Health Foundation

Hearing health foundation's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.

Health
11
Columbus Speech and Hearing Center

To unlock potential for individuals with communication challenges.

Health
12
The River School

Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Speech School; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CCHAT CENTER - SACRAMENTO: $7,245,500 · OtherCCHAT CENTER - SACRAMENTOAG BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $6,887,000 · OtherAG BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEA…A G Bell Assco for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: $5,650,000 · OtherA G Bell Assco for the Deaf and Hard of HearingCLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF INC DBA CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $5,593,012 · OtherCLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF INC DBA CLARKE SCHOOL…HASKINS LABORATORIES INC: $3,159,634 · OtherHASKINS LABORATORIES INCClarke Schools for Hearing and Speech: $2,735,587 · OtherClarke Schools for Hearing and Speech+35 more: $17,549,086 · Other+35 moreTHE MOOG CENTER FOR DEAF EDUCATION: $10,497,042 · EducationTHE MOOG CENTER FOR DEAF EDUCATIONListen and Talk: $8,115,000 · EducationListen and TalkTHE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NY: $7,800,000 · EducationTHE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NYCHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL: $7,368,163 · EducationCHILD'S VOICE SCHOOLFOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER: $5,775,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN C…Atlanta Speech School Inc: $3,099,250 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc+16 more: $6,105,226 · Education+16 moreHearts for Hearing Foundation: $11,001,169 · Human ServicesHearts for He…HEAR ME NOW INC: $1,088,844 · Human ServicesHEAR ME NOW I…ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $785,411 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH INS…+2 more: $364,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,092,107 · HealthThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $575,000 · HealthTHE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION: $467,500 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $336,191 · HealthBUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $250,000 · HealthMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $250,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $134,287 · Health+1 more: $102,750 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $330,240 · PhilanthropyTHE TREEHOUSE PROJECT: $220,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$48,819,819Education$48,759,681Human Services$13,239,424Health$3,207,835Philanthropy$330,240Arts & Culture$220,000

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 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 budgetYale University: $1,047,704 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $81,806 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $71,978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $26,571 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Fou…Greater Houston Commu…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Baird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Oberkotter Foundation?

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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home