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Otter Island 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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$457kEducation$374kHealth$141kEnvironment$130kReligion$59kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$44kCivil Rights$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k77 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$27,000
ISLAND INSTITUTE$13,500
FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE$12,000
POE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION$10,000
FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM$10,000
PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA$6,000
NORTH BRIDGE ACADEMY$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL$5,000
ROCKWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH$5,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$3,500
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,500
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$3,500
UNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES$3,000
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$3,000
HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY$3,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EPISOCPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 11%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $500 → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $500 → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $500 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 12%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $250 → 16%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 12%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $250 → 16%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 12%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE: $750 → 16%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 16%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $300 → 16%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $298 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $750 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $6k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $6k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $1k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $1k → 11%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $3k → 16%KIDS MEAL INC: $1k → 16%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $300 → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $300 → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $300 → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $500 → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $500 → 11%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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CA
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CO
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DC
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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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 145 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

145 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
47

Total granted

$1.4M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+4%

Still filing today

74%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TW
    THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +62%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +89%
  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • DM
    DEYOUNGLEGION MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • FA
    FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • DC
    DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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
2
Boston Architectural College

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

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
8
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool Parent OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesJewish Community Organizati…Ymca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Dance Arts OrganizationsElementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Health Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/160
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,405

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

151 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 151 of the 208 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/151
Grantees still filing
109/151
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $128,761 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRAR…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $66,424 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $55,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRE…FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC — $45,066 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE I…ALLEY THEATRE — $20,500 · Arts & Culture+24 more — $90,071 · Arts & Culture+24 morePoe Elementary School PTO — $27,500 · OtherPoe Elementary School PTOCOFAM — $27,170 · OtherCOFAMANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL — $26,500 · OtherANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOLCAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $26,200 · OtherROCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY — $23,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY OF GILMANTON — $22,461 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $20,512 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $20,000 · Other+93 more — $302,888 · Other+93 moreIsland Institute — $93,611 · EducationIsland InstituteCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $47,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGEROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $30,947 · EducationROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATI…SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL — $30,500 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERSITY — $19,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYGROTON SCHOOL — $18,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $11,500 · Education+19 more — $81,255 · Education+19 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $24,577 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $19,400 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $11,250 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital — $6,150 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,820 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $3,400 · Health+7 more — $7,749 · HealthUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC — $18,513 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,340 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $8,000 · PhilanthropyWatermans Community Center — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $2,200 · PhilanthropyPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $17,458 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $7,475 · Human ServicesThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania — $5,400 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $3,800 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE — $2,250 · Human Services+6 more — $5,548 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $19,900 · Civil RightsVOTEORG — $12,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $9,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $2,500 · Civil Rights+2 more — $2,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$405,822Other$496,231Education$331,813Health$84,346Philanthropy$54,053Human Services$50,931Civil Rights$45,900

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $128,761 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetIsland Institute — $93,611 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $66,424 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $47,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC — $45,066 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $30,947 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL — $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPoe Elementary School PTO — $27,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $24,577 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLEY THEATRE — $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $19,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $19,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC — $18,513 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $17,458 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $15,440 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVOTEORG — $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,340 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $11,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $10,405 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION — $10,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAMDEN CONFERENCE — $9,013 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe General Henry Knox Museum — $9,011 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $7,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $7,475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $6,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,820 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $5,800 over 5y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKPORT LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Poe Elementary School PTO ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds VOTEORG ↗
  • Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CAMDEN CONFERENCE ↗

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Found…Fisher Charitable Fou…Tr Ua the Camden Foun…Middlecott FoundationDavis Family Foundati…The Bertuzzi Family F…Community Foundation …Onion FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Angel FoundationMorton-Kelly Charitab…Strake Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME30.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Otter Island 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 208 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.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines