· Private foundation
The Ott Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CARING FOUNDATION INC | $28,024 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOPE RESTORED FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $6,002 |
| HANDS OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERS | $3,000 |
| CAREY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| FLAT LAND RESOURCES LLC | $2,144 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HOPE INDIA MISSION | $2,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $1,032 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GILEAD MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $175 |
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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 25% of The Ott Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 23%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWorld Hope International Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $554k · revenue +4%
- IWINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $540k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CARING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED8× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +28% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $79k
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $14k
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.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Delivering hope through faith by transforming lives spiritually, socially and economically.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 77 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.
- Who funds World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds METRO RELIEF ↗
- Who funds EQUIP Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds GRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAREY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hope India Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GILEAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKENING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Story ↗
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: Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana Inc · Atlas Foundry Foundation Inc · Boren Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ott Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ott Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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