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Ortus 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.

$721k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Education$560kHealth$179kArts & Culture$126kInternational$25kScience & Tech$25kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$4kHuman Services$2k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $316k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Georgetown University$350,000
Baylor College of Medicine$150,000
Erikson Institute$100,000
Mayan Warrior Foudation$66,000
Shulgin Farm Foundation$10,000
Lurie Children's Foundation$10,000
Mystic Arts Foundation$10,000
Wolcott School$10,000
Dignitas Ukraine$5,000
Clinton Foundation$4,200
American Foundation Suicide Prevent$2,500
Voices Jackson Hole$1,600
Teton county Health Department$1,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Eastern Congo Initiative: $20k → 11%Voices Jackson Hole: $2k → 5%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Mayan Warrior Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYErikson Institute — $200,000 · EducationErikson InstituteBaylor College of Medicine — $150,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicinePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 · EducationMAYAN WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $66,000 · Arts & CultureMAYAN WARRIOR F…THE JOFFREY BALLET — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BAL…MYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC ARTS FOU…Lurie Children's Hospital Foundatio — $15,000 · OtherLurie Children's Foundation — $10,000 · OtherWolcott School — $10,000 · OtherShulgin Farm Foundation — $10,000 · OtherAmerican Foundation Suicide Prevent — $2,500 · Other+1 more — $1,500 · OtherEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE — $20,000 · Human ServicesVoices Jackson Hole — $1,600 · Human ServicesDignitas Ukraine Inc — $5,000 · InternationalBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $4,200 · Health
Education$725,000Arts & Culture$126,000Other$49,000Human Services$21,600International$5,000Health$4,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikson Institute — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYAN WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $66,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMYSTIC ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDignitas Ukraine Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoices Jackson Hole — $1,600 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Ortus 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ortus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ortus 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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