New York · Public charity
Open Space Institute Inc
Osi protects land for clean drinking water, public recreation, healthy communities, and wildlife habitat; and to conserve intact forests and floodplains that capture and store carbon and protect against increasingly dangerous weather events.
- $588k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $356,374
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Open Space Institute Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $578k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $3.3M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $233k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $201k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $162k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $212k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $173k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $246k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Beaverkill Valley Land Trust Inc | $538,769 | 7 | 58% |
| Spiral House Park | $356,374 | 1 | n/a |
| Relato Agency LLC | $91,158 | 2 | n/a |
| Harborlab | $89,281 | 5 | n/a |
| Addison Blakemore Dba Two Evergreen Machine LLC | $87,926 | 3 | n/a |
| Land to Learn | $72,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Citizen Climate Cost Project Ltd Harvard Business Services Inc | $69,052 | 2 | n/a |
| Center on Modernity in Transition | $62,130 | 1 | 8% |
| Ecological Citizen's Project Inc | $61,824 | 6 | 7% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Open Space Institute Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Novo Foundation · The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Lostand Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · The Dyson Foundation · Land Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Open Space Institute Inc
- How much does Open Space Institute Inc give?
- Open Space Institute Inc reported 19 grants totaling $587,815 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Open Space Institute Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (80%), Civil Rights (10%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Open Space Institute Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc ($3.0M), Beaverkill Valley Land Trust Inc ($539k), Spiral House Park ($356k).
- Does Open Space Institute Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Open Space Institute Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, Ibm International Foundation, Novo Foundation.
- Where is Open Space Institute Inc based?
- Open Space Institute Inc is based in NY.
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