· Private foundation
Otto Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee | $150,000 |
| University of Washington Medicine | $40,000 |
| Scripps Health Foundation | $20,000 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WWITHINREACH6× · 2018–2023 · $368k · revenue +101%
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH7× · 2018–2025 · $215k · revenue +61%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $160k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $119k
- AOACLU of San Diego and Imperial Ctyone grant, 2022 · $30k
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRIone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
The mission of Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation is to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of reproductive biology and women's health; translate this knowledge into improved health for women and infants; train current…
Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WITHINREACH ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAX FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Otto Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otto Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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