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The Osterman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Osterman 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.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$486kHuman Services$368kPublic Benefit$350kYouth Development$155kEducation$119kHealth$43kCrime & Legal$40kEmployment$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$220,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC NATION ALL IN ONE DEMOCRACY$220,000
MASS VOTE YOUNG CIVIC LEADERS$130,000
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 (FY20–23, $360k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $30k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 14%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $30k → 10%RICK'S PLACE INC: $15k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 14%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $27k → 10%RICK'S PLACE INC: $6k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $26k → 10%RICK'S PLACE INC: $6k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $35k → 10%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $31k → 10%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $25k → 10%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $25k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Osterman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 70%.

The Osterman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

92%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TU
    THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $175k · revenue +17%
  • OT
    OPEN TABLE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $135k · revenue +121%
  • ON
    Our Neighbors' Table Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $116k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +32%
  • MC
    MASS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
  • BC
    BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
2
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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3
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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4
The Community Kitchen Inc

The community kitchen is a direct-service united way agency providing healthy and nourishing hot meals and take-home boxes and advocacy to low and moderate income individuals and families in the monadnock region.

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
6
CoreGiving Co

Engage in the charitable purpose of combating childhood hunger.

Philanthropy
7
Big Big Table Community Cafe Incorporated

Big Big Tables mission is to provide a dignified response to hunger in our community, serving Buffalo with accessible and affordable nutritious meals regardless of ability to pay.

Human Services
8
Root Ns Inc

Root's mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through food service training and employment. by developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave root prepared for success in the workplace.

Food & Nutrition
9
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
10
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc

The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…

Health
11
Community Kitchen Inc

Provide food and service referrals

Food & Nutrition
12
The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc

The open door's mission is to alleviate the impact of hunger in the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lorraine's Soup Kitchen and Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVIC NATION ALL IN ONE DEMOCRACY: $220,000 · OtherCIVIC NATION ALL IN ONE DEMOCRACYMASS VOTE YOUNG CIVIC LEADERS: $130,000 · OtherMASS VOTE YOUNG CIVIC LEADERSTHE CARE CENTER: $119,000 · OtherTHE CARE CENTERRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $101,260 · OtherRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCRAW ART WORKS INC: $39,740 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INC+5 more: $72,278 · Other+5 moreOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $115,500 · Human ServicesOur Neighbors' Table IncJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENT…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT I…Ricks Place Inc: $27,000 · Human ServicesRicks Place IncTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $175,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIAT…OPEN TABLE INC: $135,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE INC+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL CITY BOXING & BARBELL INC: $115,000 · EducationCENTRAL CI…YEAR UP INC: $35,000 · EducationYEAR UP IN…Children's Hospital Corporation: $25,000 · HealthHONEST BEGINNINGS INC: $18,000 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCatamount Film & Arts Company: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$682,278Human Services$360,000Food & Nutrition$320,000Education$150,000Health$43,000Crime & Legal$40,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $175,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $115,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL CITY BOXING & BARBELL INC: $115,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $112,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $101,260 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $39,740 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRicks Place Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLorraine's Soup Kitchen and Pantry Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPALMER FOOD SHARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCatamount Film & Arts Company: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Massachusetts Bankers…Arbella Insurance Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Boston Foundation IncMA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Osterman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osterman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Ricks Place Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Catamount Film & Arts Company: 27% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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