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Ohrstrom Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.4M
Granted FY2020
37
Grants FY2020
12
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

72% of Ohrstrom Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

01What you fund
01FY2020 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $795k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.1M
$35,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$1,050,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$1,050,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$1,050,000
ASHESI UNIVERSITY$80,000
5 GYRES$80,000
NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT$75,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$75,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$75,000
TOGETHER WE RISE$75,000
SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE$75,000
LITTLE SISTERS FUND$60,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$50,000
WINDY HILL FOUNDATION$50,000
MADRE$50,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $1.1M → 16%LITTLE SISTERS FUND: $60k → 7%TOGETHER WE RISE: $75k → 10%MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $30k → 10%5 GYRES: $80k → 14%MADRE: $50k → 17%GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN: $50k → 20%NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $75k → 14%HORTON'S KIDS: $10k → 14%OCEAN BLUE PROJECT: $10k → 18%CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $40k → 12%ASHESI UNIVERSITY: $80k → 9%C4 RECOVERY SOLUTIONS: $35k → 6%PALESTINE LEGAL: $10k → 14%PIEDMONT CRUSH: $10k → 8%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $75k → 8%SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $75k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%WILD EARTH ALLIES: $40k → 8%VOLO CITY FOUNDATION (ACTIVE SOCIAL COMMUNITIES): $10k → 19%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $1.1M → 16%PLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%KAILASH SATYARTHI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%APPALACHIAN VOICES: $15k → 8%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $1.1M → 16%GETTING OUT STAYING OUT: $30k → 17%OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $15k → 14%SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $25k → 8%SENTENCING PROJECT: $10k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your 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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
4
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
5
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
6
Clean Oceans International

Our Mission: Reduce oceanic plastic pollution through Research, Innovation, and Direct Action.

Science & Tech
7
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
8
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
9
Environment Now
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10
International Council On Environmental Economics and Development Union
Human Services
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sentencing Project and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr14%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr14%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,331

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.

03the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $3,150,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMASHESI UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · OtherASHESI UNIVERS…The 5 Gyres Institute — $80,000 · OtherThe 5 Gyres In…SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $75,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN CO…SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $75,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIR…GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN — $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL FUND FO…WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherWINDY HILL FOU…FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC — $40,000 · OtherFAUQUIER FREE …GETTING OUT STAYING OUT — $30,000 · OtherGETTING OUT ST…+8 more — $80,000 · Other+8 moreRAINFOREST TRUST — $75,000 · InternationalLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC — $60,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $50,000 · InternationalMADRE INC — $50,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $30,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $25,000 · InternationalWild Earth Allies Inc — $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $30,000 · EnvironmentSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $25,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $15,000 · EnvironmentPLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentOcean Blue Project Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTOGETHER WE RISE — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $40,000 · Food & NutritionC4 Recovery Solutions Inc — $35,000 · Health
Philanthropy$3,150,000Other$560,000International$290,000Environment$165,000Youth Development$85,000Recreation & Sports$75,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Health$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute — $80,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC — $60,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMADRE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWild Earth Allies Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetC4 Recovery Solutions Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLASTIC OCEANS INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA PLACE TO BE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Fagus FoundationThe Luminescence Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodVerizon FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
Fagus FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fagus Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ohrstrom Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ohrstrom Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ohrstrom Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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