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Ove W Jorgensen Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$337k
Granted FY2026still arriving
22
Grants FY2026still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Environment$1.3MEducation$346kHuman Services$167kArts & Culture$121kAnimals$107kHealth$56kYouth Development$33kReligion$29kOther$0
02FY2026 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k13 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUNN SCHOOL$75,000
BRIDGE OF GRACE INC$60,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$55,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$20,000
WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER$20,000
HUMANE FORT WAYNE$15,000
WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVIC$12,500
SUPER SHOT$10,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$6,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$5,000
NIWRC$5,000
OUT OF THE BOX THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S ZOO$5,000
LATINOS COUNT$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $5k → 9%BRIDGE OF GRACE INC: $60k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE INC: $25k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE INC: $20k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE INC: $20k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $12k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $10k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $5k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $5k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $4k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FT WAYNE: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 24 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
45

Total granted

$1.9M
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2026 · $470k · revenue +62%
  • WA
    WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION
    10× · 2017–2026 · $210k · revenue +38%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • NP
    NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue +245%
  • IU
    INDAINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • TE
    THE ENSEMBLE THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
5
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
6
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
7
Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

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8
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
9
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
10
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
11
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
12
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northern Plains Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $470,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION: $209,750 · EnvironmentWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATIONDucks Unlimited Inc: $140,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited IncLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $129,500 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC+5 more: $22,000 · EnvironmentIndiana University Foundation: $202,500 · EducationIndiana Univer…DUNN SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationDUNN SCHOOLNATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $7,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $40,600 · OtherIndividual grant rec…INDAINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,686 · OtherINDAINA UNIVERSITY F…INDIANA NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATIO: $20,000 · OtherSANTA YNEZ VALLEY ALLIANCE: $15,000 · OtherGIRLS WHO CLICK: $15,000 · OtherSuper Shot Inc: $55,750 · OtherSuper Shot IncWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $28,500 · OtherWELLSPRING INTERFAIT…WORLDWOMENWORK: $15,500 · Other+38 more: $203,500 · Other+38 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $180,000 · Crime & LegalBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $36,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesLC NATURE PARK INC: $53,333 · AnimalsHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $52,500 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $48,500 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $11,000 · Animals+2 more: $400 · AnimalsNORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $5,600 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOUT OF THE BOX THEATRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$971,250Education$294,500Other$424,536Crime & Legal$180,000Human Services$166,500Animals$165,733Arts & Culture$92,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $470,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION: $209,750 over 10y, 10.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $202,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $180,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $140,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $129,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $125,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $55,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLC NATURE PARK INC: $53,333 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $48,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $36,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORLDWOMENWORK: $15,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Guardians: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $5,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS OUTREACH: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLY FISHERS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROSEVILLE URBAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetLITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBloomington Playwrights Project Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER STOCK STAGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE ROO FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DUNN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
  • Who funds LC NATURE PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds WORLDWOMENWORK ↗
  • Who funds Francisco Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Earth Guardians ↗
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ove W Jorgensen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ove W Jorgensen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ove W Jorgensen Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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