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The Offield Family 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2023
98
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.9MPhilanthropy$4.7MEnvironment$3.6MHealth$3.5MAnimals$2.5MEducation$1.8MHuman Services$990kRecreation & Sports$963kOther$0
02FY2023 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 98 grants below total $5,598,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,000,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $402,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k15 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $923k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$500,000
OFFIELD CENTER FOR BILLFISH STUDIES$450,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN$285,000
NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC$250,000
FIRST DESCENTS$200,000
THE ART OF ELYSIUM$200,000
J.F. SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER, INC.$200,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$160,000
INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC$150,000
LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION$150,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN$102,500
NORTHWEST MICHIGAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100,000
CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION$100,000
FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS$100,000
CROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC.$100,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 97 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
35

Total granted

$23M
$895k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

96%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $925k · revenue +697% · 74% of their budget
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $912k · revenue +126%
  • HH
    HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $870k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WEST & NORTHERN MI
    one grant, 2019 · $328k
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2019 · $63k · revenue +4%
  • RF
    READMOND FRIENDSHIP & CROSS VILLAGE FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $52k · revenue +124%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
2
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
6
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.

—
7
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
8
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
11
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
12
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersPregnancy Support CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & RescueAffordable Housing Construc…Private Grantmaking Foundat…Charter and Independent Sch…Government Accountability &…Christian Outreach Ministri…Youth Development CentersChildhood Cancer SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library SupportClassical Music OrchestrasIndigenous Community Develo…Food Pantries and AssistanceCollege Foundation SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Developmental Disabilities …Public School District Foun…Community FoundationsVeteran Support ServicesDomestic Violence and Sexua…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Youth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Advocacy and …Community Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr18%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%18%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr18%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/154
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,702

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.

03the grantee network

143 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. 143 of the 155 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/143
Grantees still filing
104/143
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION — $925,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIV…THE ART OF ELYSIUM — $729,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART OF ELYSIUMINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC — $600,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH…CROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $565,000 · Arts & CultureCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNC…NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INCHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $335,000 · Arts & CultureHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HIS…THE BRICK — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRICKTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $270,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $632,915 · Arts & Culture+14 moreMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $4,050,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $911,811 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF …+4 more — $135,000 · HealthSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $700,000 · OtherSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCYTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $500,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $375,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WEST & NORTHERN MI — $328,000 · OtherNORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $300,000 · OtherHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION — $870,000 · OtherHARBOR HALL FOUNDATIONPfleger Institute of Environmental Research — $400,000 · OtherFJC — $265,000 · OtherCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $345,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI — $295,000 · Other+65 more — $3,400,649 · Other+65 moreOFFIELD CENTER FOR BILLFISH STUDIES — $891,500 · EnvironmentOFFIELD CENT…THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $585,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDE…OCEANA INC — $500,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCLAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION — $225,000 · EnvironmentLAGUNA CANYO…CATALINA SEA BASS FUND INC — $180,000 · EnvironmentCATALINA SEA…FOR LOVE OF WATER — $135,000 · EnvironmentTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL — $95,000 · EnvironmentPANGEASEED FOUNDATION — $92,075 · Environment+3 more — $35,000 · EnvironmentVISTAMAR SCHOOL — $420,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $285,000 · EducationINDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC — $275,000 · EducationHarbor Springs Library — $130,000 · EducationCatalina Island Museum — $110,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $110,000 · EducationCENTER FOR LEARN LOCAL — $100,000 · EducationLAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $69,207 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · Education+10 more — $221,000 · EducationJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $854,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST DESCENTS — $400,000 · Recreation & SportsTop of Michigan Trails Council — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc — $502,500 · Human ServicesHARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted — $75,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY — $70,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER COALITION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $38,000 · Human Services+7 more — $117,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$5,356,915Health$5,096,811Other$7,778,649Environment$2,738,575Education$1,780,207Recreation & Sports$1,694,000Human Services$1,027,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $4,050,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION — $925,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $911,811 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOFFIELD CENTER FOR BILLFISH STUDIES — $891,500 over 5y, 100% of budgetHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION — $870,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $854,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ART OF ELYSIUM — $729,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $700,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC — $600,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $585,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $565,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc — $502,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC — $500,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetOCEANA INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $500,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetVISTAMAR SCHOOL — $420,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPfleger Institute of Environmental Research — $400,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $400,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $375,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $345,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $335,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $300,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BRICK — $300,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI — $295,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $285,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTITUTE INC — $275,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $270,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFJC — $265,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTop of Michigan Trails Council — $250,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetHIGH ARCTIC INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $250,000 over 5y, 64% of budgetLAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $185,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCATALINA SEA BASS FUND INC — $180,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetGreater Harbor Springs Area Planning Resource Group dba Harbor Inc — $180,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $163,189 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT — $135,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER — $135,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetHarbor Springs Library — $130,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCatalina Chimes Tower Foundation — $113,500 over 2y, 40% of budgetCatalina Island Museum — $110,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY — $110,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…Frey FoundationCharlevoix County Com…Triford FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …Oleson FoundationOrange County Communi…Henry E & Consuelo S …Tom and Ellen Noneman…The Summers Foundatio…Affordable Housing Ma…Baiardi Family Founda…
Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community FoundationMI54.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Triford Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc · Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust · The Summers Foundation Inc · Affordable Housing Management Foundation · Baiardi 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Offield Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Offield 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6.0M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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