· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| ON BEING PROJECT | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Osprey Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +39% · 38% of their budget
- OSOPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE BALTIMOREone grant, 2018 · $200k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds CORUS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
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- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ON BEING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDEPCA USA ↗
- Who funds SANERGY INC ↗
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- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Osprey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osprey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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