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The Olcott Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Olcott Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$399kPhilanthropy$167kEducation$156kHealth$107kRecreation & Sports$11kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$2kYouth Development$250Other$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$503k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TOUCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%TOUCH FOUNDATION: $500 → 20%THE KEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 16 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$541k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+84%

Still filing today

56%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TD
    THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +2%
  • GW
    GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $114k · revenue +333%
  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • GF
    GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • OR
    OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
2
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

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…

Environment
3
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
4
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
5
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
6
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
7
Georges River Land Trust

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.

Environment
8
Lowell Observatory Foundation

To sustain and enhance lowell observatory's mission of research and education by generating perpetual financial support.

Science & Tech
9
The Great Pond Foundation Inc

Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.

Environment
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Bourne Conservation Trust

To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment

Environment
12
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $200,409 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INCGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $113,809 · Arts & CultureGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INCOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $14,400 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,600 · Arts & CultureLOOMIS CHAFFEE ANNUAL FUND: $65,000 · OtherLOOMIS CHAFFEE ANNUAL FU…MADSONIAN MUSEUM: $34,200 · OtherMADSONIAN MUSEUMGLAUCOMA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherGLAUCOMA FOUNDATIONNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $15,000 · OtherNew Hampshire Associatio…Individual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…NH BOAT MUSEUM: $10,250 · OtherNH BOAT MUSEUMCON VIVO MUSIC INC: $8,200 · Other+11 more: $15,450 · Other+11 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,578 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF CO…GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthFamilies in Transition: $9,500 · Housing & ShelterGRANITE STATE ADAPTIVE: $6,200 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$346,218Other$184,100Education$150,000Philanthropy$100,578Health$66,500Housing & Shelter$9,500Youth Development$6,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $200,409 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $113,809 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,578 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $14,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRANITE STATE ADAPTIVE: $6,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWOLFEBORO AREA RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOUCH HEALTH INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wright Museum of World War II: $100 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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable F…New Hampshire Charita…Lovett-Woodsum Founda…American Endowment Fo…D a Hamel Family Char…The Beach FoundationThe Booth FoundationThe Hajim Family Foun…The Penates FoundationFidelity FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal Fund
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 31 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 (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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