· Private foundation
The Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $587k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $38,814 |
| LATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS Inc (LUCA) | $25,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD LIGHT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| URBAN ARTS | $25,000 |
| STONEWALL INN GIVES BACK | $24,000 |
| KID NUZ | $20,000 |
| READING TEAM INC | $20,000 |
| FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS | $20,000 |
| South Bronx United | $20,000 |
| GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMM CENTER | $20,000 |
| MARCO PATRIOTS INC | $20,000 |
| FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM | $20,000 |
| MENTOR FOR CHANGE | $20,000 |
| YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND5× · 2020–2024 · $176k · revenue +33%
- TCTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $146k · revenue +66%
- FMFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- RNROW NEW YORK INCone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -40%
- MCMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTERESTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LILONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY GEORGE POLK AWARDSone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…
Reel works mentors, inspires and empowers underserved nyc youth to share their stories through filmmaking, creating a springboard to successful careers in media and beyond.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.
Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 85 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 PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds READING TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds MANA DE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REPORTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENTOR FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THERAPY ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YWCA OF BROOKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds NY WRITERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC PRESS ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK 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: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Institute for Nonprofit News · Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · American Express Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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