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The Osprey Foundation at a glance

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The Osprey Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$104k
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2020.

Arts & Culture$42kHealth$35kEnvironment$25kHuman Services$15kReligion$7kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k20 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOTA COURT PRESERVATION ASSOC$30,000
HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION$10,000
GRACIE'S PLACE$7,500
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$5,000
GENERATIONS LAKELAND RETIREMENT FOUNDATION$5,000
CAMPANILE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
COVID FOOD FUND FOR UPPER KEYS$5,000
MINOCQUA KAWAGUESAGA LAKES PROTECTION ASSN$4,060
MINOCQUA VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE$2,500
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF LAKE FOREST LAKE BLUFF$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
FLORIDA BAY FOREVER$2,000
GUIDES TRUST FOUNDATION$2,000
PASTIMES CHUB ADULTS DAY CARE CENTER$2,000
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 (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PASTIME CLUB: $500 → 12%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.
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 7 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +164% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$58k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+164%
+33%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HY
    HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $31k · revenue +164%
  • CC
    CAMPANILE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +43%
  • MK
    MINOCQUA KAWAGUESAGA LAKES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • FK
    Florida Keys Concert Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +33%
  • ME
    MCC EMERGENCY GENERATOR FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • TP
    THE PASTIME CLUB INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +12%
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
Florida Keys Fishing Guides

Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…

Animals
2
Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust Inc
Environment
3
Marine Discovery Center

Protect florida coastal ecosystem via education, research and community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
4
Green Lake Conservancy Inc

The green lake conservancy permanently and proactively protects and preserves special places, primarily in the green lake watershed and county by oppering conservation expertise, strattegies, and legal tools for the benefits of humans,…

Environment
5
The Everglades Trust Inc

To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.

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6
Interlaken Wildlife Foundation
Animals
7
Pigeon Key Foundation Inc

Research and education

Environment
8
Friends of Deerfield Island Park Inc

Education and conservation

Environment
9
North Florida Land Trust Inc

The north florida land trust is dedicated to preserving the natural areas, historic resources, and working lands of north florida.

Environment
10
Wildlands Conservation Inc

Preservation of the environment through ecological research to preserve our national heritage

Environment
11
Cca Florida Foundation Inc

To support coastal conservation association in carrying out the charitable and educational purposes for which it was organized and is operated, namely, promoting and advancing the preservation, conservation and protection of marine, plant…

Environment
12
Florida Wildlife Federation

To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Dolphin Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Pastime Club Inc. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOTA COURT PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · OtherIOTA COURT PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INCNATIONAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES FOUNDATIONGRACIE'S PLACE: $7,500 · OtherGRACIE'S PLACEMINOCQUA KAWAGUESAGA LAKES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION INC: $7,180 · OtherMINOCQUA KAWAGUESAGA LAKES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION INCCOVID FOOD FUND FOR UPPER KEYS: $5,000 · OtherCOVID FOOD FUND FOR UPPER KEYSGENERATIONS LAKELAND RETIREMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGENERATIONS LAKELAND RETIREMENT FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF LAKE FOREST LAKE BLUFF: $4,500 · Other+12 more: $17,000 · Other+12 moreHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 · PhilanthropyHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION …CAMPANILE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureCAMPANILE…Florida Keys Concert Association Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida K…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $3,000 · EnvironmentISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC: $2,000 · HealthGOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $2,000 · HealthISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PASTIME CLUB INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$86,180Philanthropy$30,500Arts & Culture$11,500Environment$8,000Health$4,000Community Improvement$2,000Human Services$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIOTA COURT PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCAMPANILE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $8,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMINOCQUA KAWAGUESAGA LAKES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION INC: $7,180 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFlorida Keys Concert Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA BAY FOREVER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGuides Trust Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASTIME CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Pukall Lumber Foundat…Duane and Kathleen Fo…Wisconsin Public Serv…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pukall Lumber Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc · Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Osprey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osprey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Osprey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Osprey 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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