Wisconsin · Private foundation
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.
- $155k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $98,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 31 | $155k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $125k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $119k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $130k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $109k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $52k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $57k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $68k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yerkes Future Foundation Inc | $130,533 | 5 | 0% |
| Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc | $123,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc | $111,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc | $79,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $26,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Geneva Lake Sailing School Inc | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Our House Grief Support Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Stetson University Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($227k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated with peer funders
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About Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated
- How much does Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated give?
- Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated reported 31 grants totaling $155,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (16%), Education (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
- Who are Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yerkes Future Foundation Inc ($131k), Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc ($124k), Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc ($111k).
- Does Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated 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 Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation, Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation, A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001.
- Where is Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated based?
- Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated is based in WI.
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