· Private foundation
The Olsen Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE OLSEN FOUNDATION A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CULTURE IS KEY | $10,000 |
| RIDER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| RARE BOOK SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE | $10,000 |
| PRINCTON FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD | $5,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FDNY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC | $5,000 |
| SHINE AND INSPIRE | $3,000 |
| MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER | $3,000 |
| THE WOUNDED BLUE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- NYNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $183k · revenue +14%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $141k · revenue +26%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC2× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRENTON LITERACY MOVEMENT INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -22% · 44% of their budget
- NNYPDone grant, 2021 · $49k
- NFNYPD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $47k
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.
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…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 83 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 NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Association of Space Explorers USA ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRENTON LITERACY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURE IS KEY ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Wounded Blue ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KOSHKA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK BROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds SHINE AND INSPIRE A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE MARS 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Laurenti Family Charitable Trust · Tenacre Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Olsen Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Explore Mars Inc — 52% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% 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.