How much did OCORA FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

OCORA FOUNDATION reported 8 grants totaling $539,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is OCORA FOUNDATION based?

OCORA FOUNDATION is based in MN.

OCORA FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

OCORA FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$540k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Animals$939kRecreation & Sports$425kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$60kHuman Services$50kArts & Culture$14kOther$629k

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$50k–250k6 grants · $510k

$80,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

RESCUE NETWORK INC$100,000
INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION$100,000
MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION$100,000
THE BITTY KITTY BRIGADE$80,000
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MN$80,000
THIS OLD HORSE$50,000
MY VERY OWN BED$17,500
CORNER OF KINDNESS$12,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+5%

Still filing today

73%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

IT
INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $425k · revenue +42%
RN
RESCUE NETWORK INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +712%
TB
THE BITTY KITTY BRIGADE
3× · 2023–2025 · $202k · revenue +89%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $100k
TR
THE RAPTOR CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $50k
TC
THE CREW
one grant, 2023 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom)

Ragom rescues and re-homes golden retrievers and golden retriever mixes. they operate in mn, ia, nd, sd, and wi.

Animals

Petconnect Rescue Inc

Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…

Animals

Pet Network Humane Society

To rescue and rehabilitate animals in danger of euthanasia.

Animals

Twin Cities Pet Rescue

Our mission is to rescue abandoned, homeless, abused, neglected and otherwise unwanted dogs and cats, with the ultimate goal of finding each one a stable and loving forever home

Animals

Tenth Life Cat Rescue

Tenth life provides veterinary care, foster homes, and adoptive placement to stray cats and kittens, prioritizing those with special needs. the organization works to end unnecessary euthanasia and cat homelessness through educational…

Youth Development

Minnesota Spay & Neuter Assistance

To end the suffering of minnesota cats and dogs due to overpopulation

Animals

The Cat Network Inc

To find loving, permanent homes for homeless cats who have few or no options for positive outcomes.

Animals

Great River Rescue

Operation of an animal shelter for unwanted and abandoned animals, community education to encourage humane treatment and responsible ownership

Animals

Puppy Kitty Ny City Inc

To provide rescue services to cats, dogs, and other small animals that are sick, injured, and/or homeless.

Animals

Humane Society of North Iowa

To provide temporary shelter, food, medical attention, and comfort to displaced and neglected companion animals and educate the public about the humane care of animals with the goal of reducing overpopulation.

Animals

Seattle Area Feline Rescue

SAFe Rescue saves feline lives by taking in homeless cats, giving them the care they need, finding them loving homes, and supporting their human companions.

Animals

Starfish Animal Rescue

To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northside Achievement Zone and the most unlike its peers is Bitty Kitty Brigade. 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

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$939,000Other$629,000Recreation & Sports$425,000Housing & Shelter$64,500Crime & Legal$60,000Human Services$50,000Arts & Culture$13,500

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.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation OCORA 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RESCUE NETWORK INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843274038 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RESCUE NETWORK INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Ocora Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ocora Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

OCORA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ocora Foundation?

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OCORA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ocora Foundation?

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