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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $85,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER | $25,000 |
| SIEMBRA NC | $25,000 |
| THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC | $15,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $10,000 |
| ACLU | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION | $9,600 |
| MUDDY PAWS RESCUE | $5,000 |
| SKY DOG SANCTUARY INC | $5,000 |
| BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%- SDSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +12%
- MPMuddy Paws Rescue3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- OMONE MINDone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SCSAVE CRYSTAL RIVER INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…
Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…
Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…
To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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.
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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OUR WILD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SKY DOG SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE CRYSTAL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Muddy Paws Rescue ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds SIEMBRA NC ↗
- Who funds JOSH'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BULLY CREW ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KING'S COLLEGE LONDON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
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.
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
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Okavango Private Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save Crystal River Inc — 55% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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