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Oldenburg Van Bruggen Foundation Inc at a glance

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Oldenburg Van Bruggen Foundation Inc

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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$72kEducation$27kYouth Development$22kPhilanthropy$13kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$9kInternational$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KNICKERBOCKER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$30,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITY ARTS INC: $970 → 10%SCULPTURE CENTER: $2k → 13%PUBLICOLOR: $10k → 17%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%CITY SQUASH: $1k → 28%Network For Good: $3k → 14%SCULPTURE CENTER: $1k → 13%PUBLICOLOR: $5k → 17%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%SCULPTURE CENTER: $1k → 13%INTL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $972 → 17%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $7k → 20%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $6k → 20%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $5k → 20%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $3k → 20%THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $2k → 20%THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $2k → 20%THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATI: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $1k → 20%THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY: $970 → 20%EVERTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT: $970 → 17%THE HOPE PROGRAM: $970 → 20%EVERTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT: $970 → 17%THE HOPE PROGRAM: $970 → 20%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%Food Bank of New York City: $1k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $972 → 17%GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SER: $2k → 17%GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%ACLU FDN: $1k → 17%ACLU FDN: $1k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 24 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$162k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+20%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • KC
    KNICKERBOCKER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +155% · 70% of their budget
  • PI
    PUBLICOLOR INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +3%
  • COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +20%
  • AC
    ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $450 · revenue -99%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $400
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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
3
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
7
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
10
The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 30 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KNICKERBOCKER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKNICKERBOCKER CHAMBER ORCHESTRATHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $4,988 · Arts & CultureTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC+3 more: $4,412 · Arts & Culture+3 moreBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $26,823 · EducationBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCI…PUBLICOLOR INC: $15,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INCCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,940 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOME…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK: $5,192 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF …EVERTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT: $3,410 · OtherEVERTOWN FOR GUN SAFET…CITY ARTS INC: $1,470 · OtherTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $3,332 · OtherTHE HOPE PROGRAM INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,300 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTI…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $1,840 · OtherCity Squash Inc: $1,500 · Other+8 more: $5,790 · Other+8 moreBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $450 · PhilanthropyTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,940 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD: $3,360 · Public Safety & DisasterAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $5,410 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,472 · InternationalGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $5,485 · Health
Arts & Culture$69,400Education$41,823Other$34,774Philanthropy$9,450Public Safety & Disaster$8,300International$6,882Health$5,485

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 budgetKNICKERBOCKER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $60,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $26,823 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $5,485 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $5,410 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $4,988 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $3,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $3,332 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $1,840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,472 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,472 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC: $1,470 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetART START INC: $1,470 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL THE CAT GUY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $450 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…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 Oldenburg Van Bruggen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oldenburg Van Bruggen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 30 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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