· Private foundation
The Ortner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $862k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANA ACADEMY | $385,000 |
| RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE | $349,000 |
| ST JEROME INSTITUTE | $270,000 |
| CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 |
| SENT INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $150,000 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| DOMINICAN HOUSE OF STUDIES COLLEGE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $150,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE FOR CATHOLIC LIBERAL EDUCATION | $125,000 |
| ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER | $100,000 |
| A SIMPLE HOUSE | $87,182 |
| THE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC INC | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| TRINITY HOUSE COMMUNITY | $40,000 |
| DIVINE MERCY ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 62% of your 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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k 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
- JEJM EDUCATIONAL GROUP6× · 2018–2024 · $575k · revenue +654%
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE4× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +9%
- EAETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- CTCHRIST THE REDEEMER CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF ARLINGTONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SISAGAMORE INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +56%
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.
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
Inspired by Saint Pope John Paul II, we take as our motto Cultura Vitae, the culture of life, as our students triumph over the materialism and despair that pervades our culture in order to have life and have it abundantly. We do this with…
The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…
The mission of Chesterton Academy is to help parents raise up a new generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
John paul the great is a private, pk4-12 independent school committed to teaching an exemplary, rigorous classical curriculum, and a comprehensive understanding of the roman catholic faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cana Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 CANA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JM EDUCATIONAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SENT INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HOUSE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Divine Mercy Academy ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEONINE FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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 Catholic Association Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ortner Family 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.
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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