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The Oehmig Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$253kAnimals$106kEducation$85kArts & Culture$18kHealth$16kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$5kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION$25,000
THE BAYLOR FUND$20,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$20,000
AMERICAN FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$5,000
BOOT CAMPAIGN$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GREENVILLE$2,500
NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH$1,100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
IA
NJ
KY
TN
SC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$479k · 10 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$479k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+27%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +434%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +77%
  • TW
    TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +27%
  • PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • TU
    TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
2
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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3
Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Tall Timbers Research Inc

The mission of tall timbers research,inc. is to foster exemplary land stewardship through research, conservation and education.our primary research focus is the ecology of fire and natural resource management including bobwhite quail and…

Science & Tech
6
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
The American Tinnitus Association

The mission of the american tinnitus association is to promote relief, help prevent, and research tinnitus cures, evidenced by its core values of compassion, credibility, and responsibility.compassion: evidenced in a spirit of hope…

Health
10
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
11
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
12
Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego

Honoring military service with science; our bench-to-bedside approach has led to breakthroughs in areas such as shingles prevention, heart disease, metabolic diseases and ground breaking work on post-traumatic stress disorder.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ducks Unlimited Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited IncTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $106,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundat…Individual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…THE SALVATION ARMY: $12,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $4,274 · OtherBAYLOR SCHOOL: $71,000 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOLSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNE…MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationMOSE & GARRISON SISK…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthPANTHER CREEK FOUNDATION: $991 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,228 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,925 · Human ServicesTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC: $2,500 · Public Benefit
Environment$177,500Animals$106,000Other$96,774Education$89,500Arts & Culture$18,000Health$9,491Human Services$5,153Public Benefit$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $106,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $71,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,925 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANTHER CREEK FOUNDATION: $991 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $424 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Hamico Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Oehmig Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oehmig Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Oehmig Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Oehmig Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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