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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
Itemized grants FY2023
93
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$5.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
77 to 93
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
12
Total assets, FY2023
$79M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Offield Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202393$5.3M18%
FY202292$5.6M20%
FY202186$5.0M22%
FY202077$4.2M21%
FY201979$4.5Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 148 grantees
All grantees of The Offield Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation$4,050,000510%
Los Angeles Nomadic Division$925,000574%
Planned Parenthood of Michigan$911,81132%
Offield Center for Billfish Studies$891,5005100%
Harbor Hall Foundation$870,000521%
Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc$854,00054%
The Art of Elysium$729,000528%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy$700,00052%
International Game Fish Association Inc$600,00055%
The Surfrider Foundation$585,00051%
Crooked Tree Arts Council Inc$565,000515%
Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc$502,50053%
Oceana Inc$500,00050%
The Peregrine Fund Inc$500,00051%
Northlight Theatre Inc$500,00043%
Vistamar School$420,00052%
Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research$400,000513%
First Descents$400,00054%
The Willows Community School$375,00051%
Chp 11-99 Foundation$345,00051%
Harbor Springs Area Historical Society$335,000519%
Planned Parenthood of West & Northern Mi$328,0001n/a
The Brick$300,00054%
Northwest Mi Habitat for Humanity$300,00045%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi$295,000213%
Industrial Arts Institute Inc$275,00058%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles$270,00050%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$250,00050%
High Arctic Institute Incorporated$250,000564%
Museum Associates$250,00050%
Top of Michigan Trails Council$250,000518%
Laguna Canyon Foundation$225,00054%
The Billfish Foundation Inc$200,000310%
Human Rights Watch Inc$185,00050%
New England Science & Sailing Foundation Inc$180,00041%
Catalina Sea Bass Fund Inc$180,000242%
Greater Harbor Springs Area Planning Resource Group dba Harbor Inc$180,000550%
The Manna Food Project Inc Dba - the Manna Food Project$135,00051%
For Love of Water$135,000510%
Harbor Springs Library$130,000527%
Via Art Fund Inc$125,00052%
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society$120,00031%
Orangewood Foundation$115,00031%
Catalina Chimes Tower Foundation$113,500240%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$110,00050%
Little Traverse Bay Humane Society$110,00052%
Christ Child Society of Northern Michigan Inc$110,000418%
Catalina Island Museum$110,00033%
City of Laguna Beach$105,8342n/a
Oceanic Society Expeditions$105,00022%
Center for Learn Local$100,000142%
City of Harbor Springs Boardwalk Project$100,0001n/a
The Good Information Foundation$100,00015%
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council$95,00052%
Pangeaseed Foundation$92,075213%
Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Inc$90,00053%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$90,00021%
Laguna Beach Police Foundation$90,0003n/a
Laguna Art Museum$76,22131%
Center on Halsted$75,00030%
Harbor Springs Chamber Foundation$75,000336%
Northern Michigan Equine Therapy$70,000418%
Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society$70,00043%
Laguna Beach Education Foundation$69,20726%
Emmet Sportsmens Foundation Inc$65,0005100%
Zoological Society of San Diego$63,00010%
Santa Catalina Tuna Club Foundation$60,000414%
American University$60,00050%
Laguna Beach Little League$58,000248%
Global Training Network Inc$55,00050%
Readmond Friendship & Cross Village Fire & Rescue Association$52,000115%
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation$50,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50,00010%
With My Own Two Hands Foundation$50,00035%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$50,00010%
City of Harbor Springs$50,0005n/a
Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation$50,00053%
Empower Coalition Inc$50,000227%
Artlab21 Foundation Esmoa$50,00053%
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast$45,00030%
University of Arizona Foundation$45,00030%
Harbor Springs Lyric Theatre$45,00032%
El Morro Elementary PTA$42,000316%
Black Canyon Boys & Girls Club Inc$40,00023%
Kidworks Community Development Corp$38,00040%
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach$35,50031%
Santa Ynez Valley Therapeutic Riding Program$35,00056%
Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra$35,00017%
The Laguna Playhouse$30,95010%
Tribal Trust Foundation Inc$30,74426%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$30,00030%
Laguna Presbyterian Church$30,0002n/a
First School Financial Aid Trust$30,00058%
The Underground Museum Inc$30,00031%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$30,00030%
American Civil Liberties Union Inc$28,33320%
Verde Valley Fair Association$27,50051%
Trustees of Westminster School Inc$25,00010%
Downtown Women's Center$25,00010%
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc$25,00010%
Great Lakes Center for the Arts$25,00010%
The Santa Ynez Valley Family School$25,00012%
Lange Foundation$25,00050%
The Amanda Foundation$25,00050%
Harbor Springs Festival of the Book$25,00016%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00010%
Ocearch$25,00012%
Joseph Center$22,00041%
Catalina Island Search & Rescue Team$20,000250%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$20,00010%
Preschool Learning for Avalon Youth$20,000120%
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Inc$20,00025%
Welcome Home Montrose Inc$20,00033%
Laura's House$15,00020%
Mid-Pacific Institute$15,00010%
Police Athletic League Inc$15,00010%
Seeds Arts and Education Inc$15,00023%
Leg Up Therapy Inc$15,0002n/a
Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc$12,00021%
Justice for Migrant Women$10,00010%
National Deer Association Group Return$10,00012%
Mercy House Living Centers$10,00010%
Basset Hound Rescue of Michigan$10,0001n/a
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County$10,00010%
Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley$10,00010%
Congregational Church of Avalon$10,0001n/a
Tip of the Mitt Junior Golf Association Dba the First Tee of Northern Michigan$10,00016%
The Rona Barrett Foundation$10,00012%
Coastal Conservation Association$10,00010%
Jeffrey P. Bodzick Scholarship Foundation$10,000126%
Fortissimo$10,00010%
The Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
Maritime Heritage Alliance$10,000111%
Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley$5,000116%
Tiyya Foundation Inc$5,00011%
The Rainbow House Inc.$5,0001n/a
Mind Springs Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Center for Independence Inc$5,00010%
Solvang School Education Foundation$5,00015%
Arts Outreach$5,00012%
Kana Samurai Foundation$5,0001n/a
Syv Fruit & Vegetable Rescue$5,00011%
Waymakers$4,29310%
Catalina Island Humane Society Inc$2,50013%
Pacific Fisheries Enhancement Foundation$2,5001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwe$1,00010%
The University of Puget Sound$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Offield Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetOceana Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Peregrine Fund Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNorthlight Theatre Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 2.6% 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 budgetThe Brick: $300,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetNorthwest Mi Habitat for Humanity: $300,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Advocates of Mi: $295,000 over 2y, 13% 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 budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHigh Arctic Institute Incorporated: $250,000 over 5y, 64% of budgetMuseum Associates: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTop of Michigan Trails Council: $250,000 over 5y, 18% 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 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 budgetPresident-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Bay Humane Society: $110,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetChrist Child Society of Northern Michigan Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCatalina Island Museum: $110,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions: $105,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 135.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About The Offield Family Foundation

How much does The Offield Family Foundation give?
The Offield Family Foundation reported 98 itemized grants totaling $5,598,000, out of $6,000,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 93 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Offield Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (14%), Philanthropy (14%), Environment (10%).
Who are The Offield Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation ($4.0M), Los Angeles Nomadic Division ($925k), Planned Parenthood of Michigan ($912k).
Does The Offield Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Offield Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Offield Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, Charlevoix County Community Foundation.
Where is The Offield Family Foundation based?
The Offield Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 155 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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