North Carolina · Private foundation
The Okavango Private 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.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 27
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Okavango Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $380k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $406k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $465k | 85% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Society | $232,575 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Wild Neighbors Inc | $162,000 | 3 | 94% |
| Beautiful Together | $135,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Mote Marine Laboratory Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sky Dog Sanctuary Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Save Crystal River Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Duke University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Muddy Paws Rescue | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Old Friends Senior Dogs Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Okavango Private Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · American Express Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About The Okavango Private Foundation
- How much does The Okavango Private Foundation give?
- The Okavango Private Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $379,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 27 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Okavango Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (60%), Environment (11%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Okavango Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Best Friends Animal Society ($233k), Our Wild Neighbors Inc ($162k), Beautiful Together ($135k).
- Does The Okavango Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Okavango Private 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 Okavango Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Strowd Roses Inc.
- Where is The Okavango Private Foundation based?
- The Okavango Private Foundation is based in NC.
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