· Private foundation
The Olcott Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND | $25,000 |
| GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LOOMIS CHAFFEE ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| FUTURE IN SIGHT | $7,000 |
| CON VIVO MUSIC | $5,000 |
| CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $2,850 |
| CHANTICLEER | $2,500 |
| GRANITE STATE ADAPTIVE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TDTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC5× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +2%
- GWGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC5× · 2018–2023 · $114k · revenue +333%
- GRGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- GFGLAUCOMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- OROCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +16%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $11k
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The Georges River Land Trust's mission is to conserve the ecosystems and traditional heritage of the Georges River Watershed Region through permanent land protection, stewardship, education, and outdoor experiences.
To sustain and enhance lowell observatory's mission of research and education by generating perpetual financial support.
Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 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 THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds GRANITE STATE ADAPTIVE ↗
- Who funds WOLFEBORO AREA RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Wright Museum of World War II ↗
- Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
- Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · D a Hamel Family Charitable Trust Xxxxx5007 · The Beach Foundation · The Booth Foundation · The Hajim Family Foundation · The Penates Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Olcott Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.