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Ocean Rain Foundation at a glance

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Ocean Rain Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$398kHealth$109kCrime & Legal$11kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$10kAnimals$7kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,030
Median grant
8
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLEEDING BLUE$10,000
BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$5,000
UCONN FOUNDATION$3,500
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS$1,637
SENIOR CAT ACTION NETWORK INC$1,150
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$1,046
WIKIMEDIA$1,040
EVERYCAT$1,030
THE FLAWLESS FOUNDATION$1,000
KITTYKIND$1,000
SHOE4AFRICA$1,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE$1,000
EVERYTOWN$1,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $5k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%EXHALE TO INHALE INC: $374 → 17%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

NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
DE
TN
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 48% of Ocean Rain Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 19%.

Ocean Rain Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$443k · 12 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$443k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+40%

Still filing today

58%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $304k · revenue +102%
  • PC
    PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +42%
  • CF
    Connecticut Flag Football League Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • CL
    CIVICA LATINO
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TH
    THE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +14%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +128%
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
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
5
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
6
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
7
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
8
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
9
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
10
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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11
Breastcancerorg

Our mission is to help people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.

Health
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bleeding Blue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 40 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $303,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $70,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $21,025 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION: $87,628 · OtherTHE DAVID LYNCH FOUNDA…+20 more: $24,651 · Other+20 moreCIVICA LATINO: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsConnecticut Flag Football League Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSHOE4AFRICA INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $275 · Recreation & SportsBLEEDING BLUE INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $500 · Crime & LegalMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,030 · Public Safety & DisasterBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEXHALE TO INHALE INC: $374 · Human Services
Education$395,525Other$112,279Recreation & Sports$21,275Crime & Legal$10,500Health$9,750Public Safety & Disaster$7,030Human Services$5,374

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $303,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $21,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLEEDING BLUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetConnecticut Flag Football League Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,552 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlawless Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $1,760 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $1,637 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,046 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITTYKIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOE4AFRICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION RETIREMENT FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXHALE TO INHALE INC: $374 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTANDEM CYCLING INC: $275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $55 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ocean Rain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ocean Rain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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