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The Offensend Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$675k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$619kArts & Culture$484kEnvironment$406kPhilanthropy$159kCommunity Improvement$149kHealth$119kRecreation & Sports$90kReligion$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 71 grants below total $474,428, the rows itemized in this filing. The $674,722 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $200,294 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k55 grants · $144k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $330k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$404k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation$45,000
Wassaic Project$35,000
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy$35,000
The Trustees of Reservations$30,000
Bank Street College of Education$25,000
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society$25,000
VIA Art Fund$25,000
High Mountain Institute$20,000
Brooklyn Public Library$15,000
Brooke Charter Schools Foundation$15,000
Cary Institute Of Ecosytem Studies$10,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$10,000
Wassaic Project$10,000
Cooke School$10,000
Accion$10,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 61 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
69

Total granted

$1.8M
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+5%

Still filing today

75%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    4× · 2020–2024 · $208k · revenue +51%
  • TW
    THE WASSAIC PROJECT INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $187k · revenue +109%
  • GY
    GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $175k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BT
    Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation--Taconic Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • BT
    Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation--NE Dutchess Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • BB
    Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservanc
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

03Its 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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 157 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/86
Grantees still filing
57/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $73,250 · OtherBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INCCongregational Church of Salisbury: $52,500 · OtherCongregational Church of SalisburyBerkshire Taconic Community Foundation: $45,000 · OtherBerkshire Taconic Community Foundatio…Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation--Taconic Fund: $40,000 · OtherThe Cooke School: $35,119 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $29,000 · OtherACCION INTERNATIONAL: $28,000 · Other+86 more: $449,002 · Other+86 moreThe Trustees of Princeton University: $207,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Uni…EMERSON COLLEGE: $104,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGEBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $73,500 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARYBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $45,050 · EducationBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETYHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · EducationHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INCHARLEM ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $25,000 · Education+8 more: $70,325 · Education+8 moreGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $174,994 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTO…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $124,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF R…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $12,688 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $12,500 · Environment+6 more: $27,882 · Environment+6 moreTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $186,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PROJE…VIA ART FUND INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureVIA ART FUND INCBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN CHILDREN…ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $51,057 · Arts & Culture+17 moreBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $121,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $13,510 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $12,308 · Human ServicesPROJECT SAGE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesOne22 Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesMATRICULATE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHORE SERVICE INC: $4,750 · Human ServicesCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $4,120 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $13,565 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,046 · Health+4 more: $4,070 · Health
Other$751,871Education$585,375Environment$352,064Arts & Culture$340,557Housing & Shelter$121,000Human Services$51,688Health$48,181

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $207,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $186,500 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $174,994 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $124,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $121,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $104,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $73,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $73,250 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY: $45,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetACCION INTERNATIONAL: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $14,745 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $13,565 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $13,510 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $12,688 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC: $12,542 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $12,308 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC: $11,650 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCERES INC: $11,382 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $11,180 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $10,730 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $8,573 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC: $7,575 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,030 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION MATTERS AFRICA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne22 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATRICULATE INC: $5,000 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationThe Jm Kaplan Fund IncBrooklyn Community Fo…De la Cour Family Fou…Tiger Baron Foundatio…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundTd Charitable Foundat…Peter and Helen Haje …
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · De la Cour Family Foundation · Tiger Baron Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Peter and Helen Haje 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Offensend Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Offensend Family 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 157 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $933k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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