· Private foundation
The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO | $90,000 |
| HAWAII OPERA THEATRE | $70,000 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $70,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA | $35,000 |
| SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HONOLULU | $23,000 |
| HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART | $18,000 |
| AVA BALLET THEATRE | $17,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOC | $15,000 |
| HAWAII YOUTH OPERA CHORUS | $10,000 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of your 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- UOUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $690k · revenue +35%
- HOHAWAII OPERA THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +12%
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC7× · 2017–2024 · $490k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIone grant, 2017 · $55k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH RENOone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SPST PATRICKS CATHEDRALone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
Gather diverse and talented musicians, professionals and amateurs, to curate and perform orchestral repertoire that uplifts, inspires, and celebrates live performances, as well as offer educational activities concerning music.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
The purpose of the Vermont Philharmonic, Inc is to provide the very best live, symphonic music concerts within our means and abilities to as wide an area of Vermont audiences as feasible, to promote the appreciation of good symphonic and…
To culturally enrich the communities of north central washington through music performance, outreach and education.
Performance and Promotion of Choral Music
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is University of Nevada Reno Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 34 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 University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Reno Chamber Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES ↗
- Who funds A V A BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OAHU CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds MINEOLA CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Atherton Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · J Watumull Fund · Carol Franc Buck Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Dods Foundation · Pikake Foundation Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · McInerny 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 The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc 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.
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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