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Oleson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$825kArts & Culture$806kRecreation & Sports$610kFood & Nutrition$587kYouth Development$443kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $866k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $609k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TART TRAILS$77,000
TRAVERSE BAY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$76,000
NW MI FOOD COALITION$75,000
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE$62,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN$57,900
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$55,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY$54,000
GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA$52,000
GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA$50,000
LEELANAU CONSERVANCY$50,000
NORTE$42,500
THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$36,040
CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY$35,000
ZONTA CLUB OF TRAVERSE CITY$34,171
THE WATERSHED CENTER$34,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $633k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHARECARE OF LEELANAU: $12k → 7%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%SHARECARE OF LEELANAU: $5k → 7%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $17k → 10%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 10%NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH PANTRIES: $15k → 9%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 10%NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH PANTRIES: $8k → 9%NEHEMIA PROJECT: $6k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CENTERS OF EMMET COUNTY: $6k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CENTERS OF EMMET COUNTY: $6k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CENTERS OF EMMET COUNTY: $5k → 9%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $32k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $30k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $20k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $36k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SINGLE MOMM: $27k → 7%CATHOLIC HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 10%ANGEL CARE CHILD CARE: $9k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $8k → 10%SINGLE MOMM: $24k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $8k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $7k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $6k → 10%ANGEL CARE CHILD CARE: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $5k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $20k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 7%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 7%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 7%PARKAKLESIS INC: $8k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5k → 7%PARAKLESIS INC: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5k → 7%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.

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 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 107 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

107 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
70

Total granted

$7.8M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationHealthOther

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

  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $391k · revenue +321%
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $368k · revenue +53%
  • TA
    TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • DF
    DIRECTORS FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $90k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • TA
    THOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

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.

1
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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2
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
3
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
4
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
5
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
6
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
7
Pace North

A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.

Health
8
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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9
Midland Camping Council Inc

To provide facilities for nonprofit organizations to enjoy the experience of nature in michigan, promote ourdoor education, and to offer camping enjoyment to the people of midland county.

Recreation & Sports
10
Northern Homes Community Development Corporation

To create and preserve quality affordable housing options for northern michigan residents through education, development, and partnering with local communities.

Human Services
11
Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc

To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.

Environment
12
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is The Rock of Kingsley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr13%9%5–10yr23%21%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr23%13%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr14%44%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/127
the rest of the field
7%
110/1,582

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.

04the grantee network

111 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. 111 of the 199 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/111
Grantees still filing
65/111
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $337,000 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $320,500 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA — $302,000 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $261,500 · OtherCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES NW MI — $208,200 · Other+130 more — $4,724,349 · Other+130 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $391,000 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVER…LEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $165,000 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CON…BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $134,000 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL GA…SEEDS — $105,000 · EnvironmentSEEDSNEW COMMUNITY VISION — $50,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $50,000 · Environment+6 more — $80,276 · Environment+6 moreFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES — $67,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $65,000 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMM — $51,500 · Human ServicesBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES — $37,000 · Human ServicesTHE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $36,040 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEAD — $33,500 · Human ServicesFriendship Community Center Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHMEN DEN YOUTH PANTRIES INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesShareCare of Leelanau Inc — $22,000 · Human Services+8 more — $88,400 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $368,230 · EducationNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationNewtons Road Northwest — $18,000 · EducationLEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER — $16,000 · Education+3 more — $20,500 · EducationDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureCITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $59,000 · Arts & CultureSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC — $116,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership — $60,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,200 · Housing & ShelterPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $63,100 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $50,650 · PhilanthropyCharlevoix County Community Foundation — $25,000 · PhilanthropyGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundation — $22,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,153,549Environment$975,276Human Services$637,940Education$472,730Arts & Culture$462,000Housing & Shelter$272,200Philanthropy$236,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $391,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $368,230 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $320,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA — $302,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $165,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE — $158,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $134,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC — $116,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING — $113,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $111,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $107,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $106,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $106,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetSEEDS — $105,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $95,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $95,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY — $90,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $90,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC — $85,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $85,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — $68,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES — $67,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $63,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetADDICTION TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $62,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership — $60,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCHARLEVOIX AREA COMMUNITY POOL — $52,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSINGLE MOMM — $51,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $50,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY VISION — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WE SMILE — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $38,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC — $37,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES — $37,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $36,040 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD — $33,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFriendship Community Center Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTE YOUTH CYCLING ↗
  • Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Grand Traverse Region…The Art and Mary Schm…Rotary Charities of T…Les & Ann Biederman F…Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…Consumers Energy Foun…Charlevoix County Com…The Broad Family Foun…Green Brick Foundatio…Frey FoundationUnited Way of Northwe…Dte Energy Foundation
Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI140× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Frey Foundation · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Dte Energy 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 organization Oleson 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Oleson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oleson Foundation 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 199 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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