· 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.
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
- Under $10k28 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION | $98,000 |
| HOLIDAY HOME CAMP | $10,000 |
| OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB | $3,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE WATER SAFETY COMM INC | $2,500 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| GENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE LEVEL CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| HAZELDON FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| ORCAT | $1,000 |
| CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| BERKSHIRE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +226%
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
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.
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.…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 45 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 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 THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA AREA FOUNDATION INC HORTICULTURAL HALL ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ORCAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S 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 GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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