· Private foundation
The Osprey Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION | $790,000 |
| IRC INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION | $700,000 |
| FRONTIER FINANCE SOLUTIONS BV(CARDONA) | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $425,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC | $403,325 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $350,000 |
| WATERAID AMERICA INC | $300,000 |
| ACUMEN FUND INC | $250,000 |
| INTERFAITH AMERICA | $200,000 |
| BURN MANUFACTURING | $200,000 |
| IMA WORLD HEALTH | $195,874 |
| BURN DESIGN LAB | $187,000 |
| ON BEING PROJECT | $150,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Osprey Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- IAINTERFAITH AMERICA7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +400%
- WAWATERAID AMERICA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +26%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +51%
Funded once
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WATER INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $350k
- OSOPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE BALTIMOREone grant, 2018 · $200k
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Center for Emerging Media Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 69 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 INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CORUS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SPLASH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ON BEING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDEPCA USA ↗
- Who funds SANERGY INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELL FOR THE JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds BURN DESIGN LAB ↗
- Who funds SAFE WATER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Osprey Foundation Inc 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.
- Interchurch Medical Assistance Inc — 76% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Osprey Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Osprey Foundation Inc 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.