· Public charity
Our Change Foundation
OUR CHANGE FOUNDATION (ocf) will aim to increase social good on the internet by educating the public and corporations about charitable causes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 157 grants below total $4,227,899 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,261,457 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,033,558 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $384k
- $10k–50k84 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE-A-WISH AMERICA | $272,654 |
| ALL WITHIN MY HANDS | $242,989 |
| FARMLINK PROJECT | $241,564 |
| VITALOGY FOUNDATION | $174,101 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $104,440 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $95,167 |
| LOWELL OBSERVATORY | $94,408 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $87,998 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $84,508 |
| SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION | $84,345 |
| UNICEF USA | $76,622 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $74,438 |
| METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $63,950 |
| FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE | $63,899 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES INC | $62,164 |
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 (FY22–24, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 130 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA2× · 2023–2024 · $757k · revenue +1%
GIRLS WHO CODE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $207k · revenue +8%- BWBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $121k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $186k · revenue +23%
- FFCANCERone grant, 2021 · $47k · revenue -19%
- TMTHE MALALA FUNDone grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue -6%
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.
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A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Soc At the Un Inc. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
169 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. 169 of the 177 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ALL WITHIN MY HANDS ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VITALOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds United States Skateboarding Federation ↗
- Who funds Living the Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FCANCER ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHAT EVERETT TAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEATHER'S WAY ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT AND FEED INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
- Who funds UNITED PLANET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
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: Pledgeling Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · PlusOnePlusOnePlusOne · Equitable Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Verizon Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Edward Charles Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Simple Generosity 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 Our Change Foundation 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
- Inspire Life — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Period Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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