New York · Private foundation
Olive Bridge Fund
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2021
- 61
- Grants FY2021
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Olive Bridge Fund’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Olive Bridge Fund named its own grantees at scale: 41 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $900,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 87
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 16
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 17% of the organizations Olive Bridge Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 58 | $1.5M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $1.1M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $1.0M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 87 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Charitable Fund Inc | $520,500 | 1 | 11% |
| Congregation Neveh Shalom | $421,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Mechon Hadar | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $275,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catlin Gabel School | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Homeplate Youth Services | $105,769 | 3 | 6% |
| Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Prep for Prep | $67,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $65,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Olive Bridge Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
How this is measured
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About Olive Bridge Fund
- How much does Olive Bridge Fund give?
- Olive Bridge Fund reported 61 grants totaling $1,548,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 87 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Olive Bridge Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Religion (13%), Education (11%).
- Who are Olive Bridge Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Marc Charitable Fund Inc ($521k), Congregation Neveh Shalom ($422k), Mechon Hadar ($300k).
- Does Olive Bridge Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olive Bridge Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Olive Bridge Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust.
- Where is Olive Bridge Fund based?
- Olive Bridge Fund is based in NY.
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