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Olson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$566k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$6.2MAnimals$915kInternational$739kEnvironment$446kArts & Culture$406kPublic Benefit$301kEducation$207kHealth$199kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $992k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $847k
  • $250k+1 grant · $566k
$25,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINGS$565,900
UKRAINE FOCUS$135,000
WILD CARE FOUNDATION$128,881
THE USA TRACK & FIELD FOUNDATION INC$123,961
Individual grant recipient$74,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$70,000
WATER 4 MERCY INC$65,000
NATIONAL COWBOY MUSEUM$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
MERCY SHIPS$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$50,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC$40,000
OETA FOUNDATION$40,000
BLAZE'S TRIBUTE EQUINE RESCUE$40,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ORPHAN ACRES: $5k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 16%REECE'S RAINBOW: $3k → 7%AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG: $1k → 6%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 16%WATER 4 FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $3k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $3k → 16%LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $3k → 16%EDMOND FAMILY COUNSELING INC: $34k → 16%EDMOND FAMILY COUNSELING INC: $34k → 16%DAILY LIVING CENTERS: $3k → 16%DAILY LIVING CENTERS: $3k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 63 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
14

Total granted

$10M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+29%

Still filing today

79%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthEducationOther
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

  • WF
    WILDCARE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $283k · revenue +191%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +98%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • UH
    UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +80%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • WI
    WATER4 INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -14%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
One Tail At a Time West Texas

One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
43/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINGS: $6,223,384 · OtherWINGS+54 more: $2,241,960 · Other+54 moreWILDCARE FOUNDATION: $282,881 · AnimalsWILDCARE …OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 · AnimalsOKLAHOMA …BLAZE'S TRIBUTE EQUINE RESCUE INC: $107,500 · AnimalsBLAZE'S T…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $75,715 · AnimalsBEST FRIE…Defenders of Wildlife: $54,500 · AnimalsDefenders…FREE TO LIVE INC: $51,715 · AnimalsFREE TO L…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $51,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL …OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $37,000 · Animals+11 more: $112,325 · Animals+11 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $187,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $167,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $75,000 · International+6 more: $24,000 · InternationalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $174,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $37,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $15,000 · EnvironmentLibrary Endowment Trust: $68,000 · EducationEDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $68,000 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation: $60,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC: $81,000 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $50,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $44,000 · Health+1 more: $35 · HealthUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $168,961 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,465,344Animals$897,636International$453,000Environment$226,000Education$196,000Health$175,535Recreation & Sports$168,961

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILDCARE FOUNDATION: $282,881 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetUKRAINE FOCUS: $225,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $187,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $174,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $168,961 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $167,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $163,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBLAZE'S TRIBUTE EQUINE RESCUE INC: $107,500 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC: $81,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $75,715 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $69,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLibrary Endowment Trust: $68,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: $68,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEdmond Family Counseling Inc: $68,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetEDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $68,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetEDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC: $68,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetZero Waste Washington: $65,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $60,600 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $54,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFREE TO LIVE INC: $51,715 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC & MEMORY INC: $51,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $50,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDMOND HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST: $50,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $44,825 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $44,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $37,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $30,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS CARING FOR CHILDREN: $18,425 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWATER4 INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $8,425 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,500 over 2y, 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.

American Fidelity Fou…Oklahoma City Communi…El and Thelma Gaylord…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Inasmuch FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Sarkeys FoundationFred Jones Family Fou…Bowen FoundationHarris Foundation IncWegener Foundation IncThe Merrick Foundation
American Fidelity FoundationOK36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Fidelity Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Sarkeys Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Wegener Foundation Inc · The Merrick 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 Olson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Olson Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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