· Private foundation
Obx Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE - THE DECISIVE | $550,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $67,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $48,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY | $30,000 |
| THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE - THE DECISIVE | $25,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| TURQOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION US | $10,000 |
| TURQOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION US | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA BY THE SEA | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $607k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +107%
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +24%
- MIMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC4× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TPTURNING POINT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k
- DHDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTERone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -19%
- YAYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oliver R Grace Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · John E Rovensky Charitable Trust 6388 F/K/A Ud Je Rovensky 2/28/89 Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Obx Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Obx Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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