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The Osherenko-Young Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$166kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$29kYouth Development$18kInternational$18kAnimals$16kEducation$14kHealth$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$649k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER$300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFE ART: $13k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%SAFE ART: $10k → 10%RED CROSS: $1k → 14%SAFE ART: $4k → 10%RED CROSS: $900 → 14%VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY: $250 → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $250 → 9%VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY: $200 → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $250 → 9%PATH: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$329k · 74 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
48

Total granted

$329k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+72%

Still filing today

69%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther

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

  • MC
    MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +95%
  • SI
    SAFEART INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +35%
  • PE
    PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue ×19

Funded once

  • FA
    FIGGE ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • LP
    LOS PADRES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • C
    CAMA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
4
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
5
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
9
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
10
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Health CentersHomeless Services & ShelterFaith-Based Senior LivingClassical Music EnsemblesSmall Business Development …Youth Sports Booster Organi…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Public University Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/79
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,899

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.

04the grantee network

73 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
67/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ART WITHOUT LIMITS — $7,000 · OtherART WITHOUT LIMITSLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $6,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD - NEW ENGLAND — $6,000 · OtherVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORP — $5,400 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA — $5,250 · OtherPRINCIPIA UPPER SCHOOL — $5,250 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $4,750 · OtherWilderness Youth Project Inc — $6,000 · Other+67 more — $78,425 · Other+67 morePACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER — $22,500 · EnvironmentPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND …SANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $15,500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SO…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAN…EARTHJUSTICE — $5,375 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICESANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $3,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $2,800 · Environment+14 more — $17,750 · Environment+14 moreMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $62,000 · EducationMARINE CONSERVATION B…+6 more — $6,750 · Education+6 moreSAFEART INC — $27,230 · Human ServicesSAFEART IN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,900 · Human ServicesAmerican N…FOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $1,950 · Human ServicesFOOD FROM …+4 more — $2,450 · Human Services+4 moreFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $4,535 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $4,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM — $3,800 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $19,440 · Crime & LegalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $8,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $4,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $3,500 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE — $1,000 · International+1 more — $500 · International
Other$124,575Environment$79,925Education$68,750Human Services$34,530Arts & Culture$23,335Crime & Legal$19,440International$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE — $62,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSAFEART INC — $27,230 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $19,440 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $15,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetART WITHOUT LIMITS — $7,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $5,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $4,535 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM — $3,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanning & Conservation League — $3,300 over 4y, 10% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK — $3,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE — $2,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $1,950 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $1,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClarina Howard Nichols Center Inc — $1,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonteverdi Music School Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCopley Health Systems Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA45.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Emmett Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The McCune Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin 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 Osherenko-Young 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 26%
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc52% of income from government
  • Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc51% of income from government
  • Lamoille Family Center Inc36% of income from government
  • Vermont Achievement Center Inc31% of income from government
  • Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc30% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc26% of income from government
  • The Vermont River Conservancy Inc21% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis17% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Loan Fund14% of income from government
  • Copley Health Systems Inc1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Osherenko-Young Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Osherenko-Young Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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