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The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$330k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$6,773
Largest grant, FY2022
$321,744
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$330k0%
FY20211$991k0%
FY20203$633k67%
FY20194$105k50%
FY20183$320kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Education$1.3MHealth$1.0MEnvironment$9kArts & Culture$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbus School for Girls$1,315,11744%
Twigs of Childrens Hospital$20,000115%
Yale University$10,0001n/a
Bald Head Island Conservancy Inc$8,50020%
Ballet Metropolitan Inc$6,50010%
The Columbus Academy$2,00020%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

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.

Arkay Foundation IncTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkay Foundation Inc · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation

How much does The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation give?
The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $329,517 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (44%), Environment (0%).
Who are The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Columbus School for Girls ($1.3M), Twigs of Childrens Hospital ($20k), Yale University ($10k).
Does The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkay Foundation Inc, Columbus Jewish Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation based?
The Gina and Chris Olsen Foundation is based in DE.

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 7 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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