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· Private foundation
Otto H York Foundation Inc
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$247k
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
3
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of Otto H York Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2020
—
2021
musicworks
2022
arts libraryhealth welfarearts cultureeducation
2023
arts libraryhealth welfarearts cultureeducation
2024
arts culturehealth welfareeducation
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TIDES$40,000
- GENERATION CITIZIEN$25,000
- NEW URBAN ARTS$20,000
- COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS$20,000
- YOUTH IN ACTION$20,000
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD SENE$20,000
- GAMM THEATRE$20,000
- DOWNCITY DESIGN$20,000
- AS220$20,000
- CAMFED$15,000
- TRINITY$10,000
- SEQUILAND INSTITUTE$7,000
- RI PHILHARMONIC & MUSIC SCHOOL$5,000
- MATHEWSON ST CHURCH$5,000
02The need
04
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 (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 20 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
20
10
Total granted
$1.3M
$155k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+76%
+120%
Still filing today
35%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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
New Urban Arts7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +76%- YIYouth In Action5× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +187%
College Visions5× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- GSGamelan Sekar Jayagraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +120%
- RGRI GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2019 · $20k
Providence Community Libraryone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -5%
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
Tides Network
To support and advance the other tides entities by providing executive leadership, hr resources, financial management and accounting, legal and compliance, and administrative services.
Philanthropy
2
Velocity Dance Center
Velocity advances contemporary dance and movement-based art by fostering the creative explorations of artists and audiences.
Arts & Culture
3
Developing Artists Theaters Company Inc
Developing Artists (DA) challenges teens to combine rigorous performing arts training with ensemble based philosophy to create original work that inspires social change.
Arts & Culture
4
Tian Yue Academy of the Arts
Promoting and teaching classical Chinese dance to revive the traditional Chinese culture. Providing extra curriculum programs to other entities to enrich student's culture experience and life.
Arts & Culture
5
Media Arts Center San Diego
Providing new media tools and channels to create equitable and engaged communities where underserved voices are heard.
Arts & Culture
6
Urban Gateways
Urban gateways engages young people in arts to inspire creativity and impact social change
Arts & Culture
7
Community Arts & Empowerment
To make art for, by and with the public.
Arts & Culture
8
Arts Education Connection San Diego
Arts Education Connection San Diego transforms learning by bringing the joy and richness of the arts to schools and communities.
Arts & Culture
9
Root Division
Root Division provides discounted studios to 25+ emerging artists in exchange for volunteering. We serve 800 youth with free art classes, 550 adults with courses, 350 artists via exhibitions, & an overall audience of 9,000 within/ beyond…
Arts & Culture
10
Athens Film Arts Institute Inc
Cine enriches the quality of life in Athens, GA and the surrounding region by presenting film and arts that inspire, educate and sustainably build community.
Arts & Culture
11
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
Arts & Culture
12
Brookline Arts Center
The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tides Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$969,500Arts & Culture$205,000Education$170,000Youth Development$130,000Human Services$40,000Philanthropy$35,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Champlin FoundationPA20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation · Mentor Rhode Island · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation Otto H York Foundation Inc 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Youth In Action.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 050495230 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Youth In Action, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Otto H York Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Otto H York Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines