· Private foundation
The Octavia Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS | $75,000 |
| MULTIPLYING GOOD INC | $25,000 |
| BASKING RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +14%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2022 · $177k · revenue +133%- TBTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +314%
Funded once
- ESEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD (FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC)one grant, 2018 · $50k
- PLPROJECT LIFT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +26%
- PLPROJECT LIFTone grant, 2021 · $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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ZARA'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONUMENTAL TASK COMMITTEE 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Octavia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Octavia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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