· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC9× · 2017–2026 · $470k · revenue +62%- WAWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION10× · 2017–2026 · $210k · revenue +38%
Indiana University Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- NPNORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue +245%
- IUINDAINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $31k
- TETHE ENSEMBLE THEATREone 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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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…
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
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.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
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…
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.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Santa Barbara Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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