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The Ohrn Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Ohrn Family Charitable 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$545kScience & Tech$71kReligion$65kEducation$42kHealth$12k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER$35,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$30,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $35k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%WHEATON COLLEGE: $25k → 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100k → 16%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER: $2k → 11%THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $30k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%WHEATON COLLEGE: $10k → 11%HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $100k → 16%HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $100k → 16%HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $100k → 16%HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $40k → 16%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $30k → 16%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25k → 16%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $20k → 16%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 16%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $12k → 16%BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND: $3k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%WBUR: $2k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $6k → 16%WBUR: $2k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $6k → 16%WBUR -- MURROW SOCIETY: $2k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $5k → 16%WBUR - MURROW SOCIETY: $2k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $4k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $1k → 16%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.
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.
$649k · 8 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$649k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+34%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $340k · revenue +27%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $142k · revenue +7%
  • WHEATON COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +34%
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
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
4
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Western New England University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $340,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INCMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $142,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $21,000 · Arts & CultureCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $65,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE R…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $20,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE …MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HO…+2 more: $6,000 · Other+2 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 · EducationPresident and…WHEATON COLLEGE: $35,000 · EducationWHEATON COLLE…+2 more: $3,500 · EducationJupiter Medical Center Inc: $2,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$543,000Other$101,000Education$88,500Health$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $340,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $142,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to The Ohrn Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ohrn Family Charitable 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 14 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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