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Orr Family Foundation

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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$2.7MScience & Tech$1.8MHealth$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.3MEducation$1.1MPublic Benefit$877kEnvironment$399kArts & Culture$267kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$550,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$235,000
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$200,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$150,000
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$150,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL$150,000
STATE VOICES$100,000
FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL INC$80,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$50,000
PARAMI UNIVERSITY INC$50,000
SOUTHEAST ASIA FOUNDATION$50,000
PENNSYLVANIA VOICE$50,000
GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLES' AGENDA SPECIAL$50,000
OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION$50,000
EAST NEW YORK COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $300k → 10%SISTERSONG: $5k → 13%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 22%FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $275k → 10%GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLES' AGENDA SPECIAL: $50k → 13%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 10%FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 14%FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $80k → 14%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%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
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Orr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Orr Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 31 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
52

Total granted

$8.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+17%

Still filing today

81%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
Civil RightsEducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +95%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +14%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +446%

Funded once

  • VR
    VOTER REGISTRATON PROJECT EVERYBODY VOTES
    one grant, 2019 · $375k
  • HK
    HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -34%
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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
3
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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4
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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8
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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9
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
12
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is SK2 Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 100 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
39/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,623,820 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECH…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $544,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICASE ASIA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSE ASIA FOUNDATIONMACHIK CORP: $180,000 · EducationMACHIK CORPDEAN COLLEGE: $95,000 · Education+8 more: $175,000 · Education+8 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,475,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS I…Friends International Inc: $380,000 · Human ServicesFriends Internationa…+5 more: $118,500 · Human Services+5 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,701,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cance…+1 more: $3,250 · HealthVOTER REGISTRATON PROJECT EVERYBODY VOTES: $375,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATON PROJEC…FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL: $210,000 · OtherFRIENDS INTERNATIONALSOUTHEAST ASIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherHONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $100,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS: $97,000 · OtherGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: $340,000 · OtherGlobal Alliance for Inci…THRIVE INC: $150,000 · OtherTHRIVE INCBROWN UNIVERSITY: $81,650 · OtherEAST NEW YORK CLT INC: $150,000 · OtherEAST NEW YORK CLT INCMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $131,500 · OtherMONTALVO ASSOCIATION+43 more: $585,613 · Other+43 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $500,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated …HOPEWELL FUND: $365,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUN…TIDES FOUNDATION: $315,227 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $160,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES: $100,000 · Civil RightsPENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $50,000 · Civil RightsOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $30,000 · Civil RightsNational Vote At Home Institute: $25,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $64,900 · Civil RightsTERMA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $100,000 · InternationalSK2 Fund: $50,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $25,000 · International+3 more: $4,500 · International
Education$2,817,820Human Services$1,973,500Health$1,704,250Other$2,420,763Philanthropy$1,180,227Civil Rights$519,900International$429,500

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,701,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,623,820 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,475,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $544,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends International Inc: $380,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $365,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: $340,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $315,227 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMACHIK CORP: $180,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTERMA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetEAST NEW YORK CLT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $131,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $81,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSK2 Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetParami University Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNEW BREATH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAll-Options: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC: $42,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOTO LATINO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCalMatters: $14,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJasper Ridge Farm: $11,785 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunities For A New California Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPacific East Quality Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationMarin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…ImpactassetsincEast Bay Community Fo…Windward FundNew Venture FundHopewell FundThe James Irvine Foun…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC25.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · East Bay Community Foundation · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · The James Irvine 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 Orr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dean College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 100 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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