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The Olsten Family C Foundation at a glance

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The Olsten Family C 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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$660kHealth$218kEducation$171kHuman Services$25kEnvironment$10kArts & Culture$6kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $339k
$74,200
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOOKSMILES$110,000
THE SPAYCE PROJECT$80,000
FARM SANCTUARY$75,000
STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION$74,200
UNDERDOG HEROES$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Fisherman's Mark: $25k → 4%Riding with HEART: $3k → 4%Riding with HEART: $500 → 4%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
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
TN
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$957k · 9 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$957k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+17%

Still filing today

89%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FS
    FARM SANCTUARY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +18%
  • EF
    EQUUS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $171k · revenue +3%
  • BA
    BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $171k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • Fishermans Markgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • NT
    NEW TRAILS EQUINE RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • HC
    HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -76%
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
Barnyard Sanctuary a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Our mission is to rescue and advocate for farm animals who are displaced or abused, to provide them with a safe and loving home and to inspire a more compassionate future for humans, animals and the planet.

Animals
2
Farm Way Sanctuary Inc

Horse Rescue. The Farm Way provides sanctuary for abused, unwanted, injured and retired horses and other domesticated animals in need of a safe and loving home.

Animals
3
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
4
Red Bucket Equine Rescue
Animals
5
The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc

To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their…

Animals
6
Liberty Sanctuary

Liberty sanctuary is a leading equine nonprofit dedicated to protecting americas most vulnerable horses and banning the slaughter of our cherished american equines. we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and offer comprehensive…

Animals
7
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
8
Liberty Barn Inc

Rescued abused abandoned and neglected horses and farm animals including goats pigs chickens and donkeys. Provided emergency care veterinary services proper nutrition shelter and behavioral rehabilitation to each intake.

Animals
9
Solitude Farm Morgan Horse Rescue
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10
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
11
Sanctuary At Bluebird Lane

We are a Wyoming based non-profit dedicated to providing support, transitional services, and a loving home for hounds, burros, horses, pigs, sheep, and chickens. While we provide sanctuary for our farm and hound friends, our primary focus…

Animals
12
South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter Inc

Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equus Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Solebury Township Historical Society. 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 25 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
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FARM SANCTUARY INC: $230,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $171,000 · AnimalsEQUUS FOUNDATION INCThe Spayce Project: $80,000 · AnimalsThe Spayce Project+3 more: $14,000 · AnimalsBOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $171,000 · OtherBOOKSMILES A NEW JERS…Individual grant recipient: $22,400 · OtherIndividual grant reci…NEW TRAILS EQUINE RESCUE: $11,592 · OtherNEW TRAILS EQUINE RES…+5 more: $10,000 · OtherTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDIC…+2 more: $10,000 · HealthSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $152,310 · Civil RightsSTANDARDBRED RE…Fishermans Mark: $25,000 · Human ServicesRIDING WITH HEART: $3,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $6,200 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureSpecial Equestrians Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsWILDLIFE CENTER FRIENDS INC: $600 · Public Benefit
Animals$495,000Other$214,992Health$210,000Civil Rights$152,310Human Services$28,000Arts & Culture$16,450Recreation & Sports$5,000Public Benefit$600

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 budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $230,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $171,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $171,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $152,310 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Spayce Project: $80,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFishermans Mark: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnderdog Heroes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $6,200 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetSpecial Equestrians Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING WITH HEART: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGhetto Rescue FFoundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER FRIENDS INC: $600 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Bank of America C…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Olsten Family C Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Olsten Family C Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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