· Private foundation
The Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| URBAN ARTS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| STONEWALL INN GIVES BACK | $24,000 |
| FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM | $20,000 |
| MARCO PATRIOTS INC | $20,000 |
| MENTOR FOR CHANGE | $20,000 |
| GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMM CENTER | $20,000 |
| South Bronx United | $20,000 |
| FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS | $20,000 |
| KID NUZ | $20,000 |
| READING TEAM INC | $20,000 |
| GENESYS WORKS (DC) | $15,000 |
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.
Your 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
- LILONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY GEORGE POLK AWARDSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FFFUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +191%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bottom Line Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marco Patriots Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 85 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 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 THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING TEAM 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 ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC PRESS ↗
- Who funds NY WRITERS COALITION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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