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Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION | $98,000 |
| OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOLIDAY HOME CAMP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB | $3,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| GENEVA LAKE WATER SAFETY COMM INC | $2,500 |
| GENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE LEVEL CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| HAZELDON FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| STETSON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| DESIGN FOUNDATION (IDSA UNDERGRAD SCH FUND) | $1,000 |
| KEYS CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LAKE GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GLGeneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +32%
LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +45%- GLGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- GAGRAVIK ANIMAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SJSt John's Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +153%
- SIST ISAAC'S JOQUES SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to make science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) come alive, and our vision is a community where all people value stem to inform decision making and enrich lives. (continued on schedule o)guiding principles: we help…
Raise funds and maintain and endowment to support the mission of the Geneva Public Library of Geneva IL
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Historic Geneva (Geneva Historical Society) shares and preserves Geneva's stories through crafted educational experiences that engage the community and visitors with its diverse history.
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Since its establishment in 1967, the association has acquired, preserved and maintained over 930 acres of local native landscapes including prairies, savannas, ravines, woodlands and wetlands for the benefit and enjoyment of the entire…
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
To administer intercollegiate athletic programs for colleges and universities
The great lakes historical society is dedicated to the preservation of great lakes history.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORCAT INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA AREA FOUNDATION INC HORTICULTURAL HALL ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LAKE GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001 · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1 · The John a Miller Family Foundation · Milton R Brown Family Foundation · The Simms Family Foundation · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Andrew Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Griffith Family 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 Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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