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Ospreytree Foundation at a glance

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Ospreytree Foundation

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.

$377k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$811kPhilanthropy$530kHuman Services$139kInternational$34kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orange County Community Foundation$126,120
WAKING THE VILLAGE$25,000
NEXT MOVE HOMELESS$25,000
EARTHLINKS INC$25,000
THE PLACE$25,000
KENZI'S CAUSES$25,000
PRODIGY VENTURES$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
WIND YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$21,820
THE MATTHEWS HOUSE$20,000
FORWARD GLOBAL$8,647
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE PLACE: $25k → 9%THE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $20k → 11%TGTHR: $25k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%THE PLACE: $25k → 9%Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc: $25k → 11%TGTHR: $25k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25k → 12%THE PLACE: $25k → 9%TGTHR: $10k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25k → 12%THE PLACE: $25k → 9%KENZI'S CAUSES: $29k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%KENZI'S CAUSES: $15k → 12%SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 12%SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 12%SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 12%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$963k · 14 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -75% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$963k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-75%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TP
    The Place
    4× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +323%
  • WT
    WAKING THE VILLAGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • KC
    KENZI'S CAUSES CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • FH
    Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -75%
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
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
2
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
3
Tarrant County Homeless Coalition

Tarrant County Homeless Coalition leads the community solution to homelessness in greater Tarrant and Parker counties by serving as a catalyst for community transformation.

Human Services
4
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…

Housing & Shelter
5
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
6
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

—
7
Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc

Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…

Housing & Shelter
8
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun

—
9
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
10
Central City Hospitality House

Hospitality House is a progressive, community-based organization located in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods, founded nearly 60 years ago in 1967 by community volunteers during the City's…

—
11
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
12
Colorado Village Collaborative

Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waking the Village; the most unlike its peers is Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $460,088 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $8,647 · PhilanthropyWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesWIND YOUTH SERVICES INCThe Place: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe PlaceSUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTERATTENTION INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION INCDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $44,000 · Human ServicesDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERSFamily Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesFamily Housing Network of Fort…THE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc: $75,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Gre…FAMILY HOMESTEAD: $60,000 · OtherFAMILY HOMESTEADKENZI'S CAUSES: $55,000 · OtherKENZI'S CAUSESIndividual grant recipient: $50,460 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYKENZI'S CAUSES CHARITABLE: $39,690 · OtherKENZI'S CAUSES CHARITABLENext Move Homeless Services: $25,000 · OtherNext Move Homeless ServicesGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE: $24,600 · OtherGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE …EARTHLINKS INC: $124,400 · Community ImprovementWAKING THE VILLAGE: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTLCS INC: $70,000 · HealthPRODIGY VENTURES INC: $25,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$468,735Human Services$424,000Other$379,750Community Improvement$124,400Youth Development$75,000Health$70,000Employment$25,000

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 budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $460,088 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC: $124,400 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Place: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWAKING THE VILLAGE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTLCS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HOMESTEAD: $60,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetATTENTION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS: $44,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFamily Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRODIGY VENTURES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE: $24,600 over 4y, 1.1% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Anschutz Family Found…The Denver FoundationSacramento Region Com…The Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Ospreytree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ospreytree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ospreytree Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ospreytree 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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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