Texas · Private foundation
Otter Island 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.
- $191k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 80 to 100
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Otter Island Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 84 | $189k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $177k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 99 | $194k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 100 | $193k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $177k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $180k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 89 | $171k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 87 | $186k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc | $138,761 | 8 | 1% |
| Island Institute | $107,111 | 9 | 0% |
| Connecticut College | $74,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Museum Inc | $70,424 | 9 | 0% |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Strand Theatre Inc | $45,066 | 8 | 1% |
| San Francisco Day School | $35,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Poe Elementary School PTO | $32,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Rockport Library Foundation | $30,947 | 3 | 2% |
| Annunciation Orthodox School | $30,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 159 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Otter Island Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Tr Ua the Camden Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Onion Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Angel Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Strake Foundation
How this is measured
About Otter Island Foundation
- How much does Otter Island Foundation give?
- Otter Island Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $191,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 100 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Otter Island Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (25%), Health (10%).
- Who are Otter Island Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc ($139k), Island Institute ($107k), Connecticut College ($74k).
- Does Otter Island Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Otter Island Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Otter Island Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fisher Charitable Foundation, Tr Ua the Camden Foundation.
- Where is Otter Island Foundation based?
- Otter Island Foundation is based in TX.
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