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The Ottinger 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.

$300k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Ottinger Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$300k40%
FY20235$210k40%
FY20225$197k20%
FY20214$170k25%
FY20207$210k71%
FY20196$204k67%
FY20185$190k80%
FY20177$255kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$721kPublic Benefit$140kEducation$129kEnvironment$111kPhilanthropy$101kCivil Rights$60kCommunity Improvement$30kScience & Tech$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The Ottinger Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equal Justice Works$472,50051%
Pace University$144,30060%
Environmental and Energy Study Institute$140,00072%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$100,50020%
Michigan Organizing Project$75,00011%
State Democracy Project$50,00010%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$40,00011%
Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc$30,00011%
Head Count Inc$30,00011%
Progress Now Education$20,00012%
Make the Road New York$20,00010%
ParentsTogether Foundation$20,00011%
Accelerate Change Inc$20,0001n/a
Colombia Vive Chicago$12,6851n/a
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$10,00010%
Working America Education Fund$10,00010%
Southern Coalition for Social Justice$10,00010%
Bedford 2030 Inc$1,00010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($529k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ottinger Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEqual Justice Works: $472,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPace University: $144,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental and Energy Study Institute: $140,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Organizing Project: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetState Democracy Project: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Youth Organizing: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLeaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHead Count Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetProgress Now Education: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMake the Road New York: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParentsTogether Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorking America Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Coalition for Social Justice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBedford 2030 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Tides FoundationCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to The Ottinger 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.

About The Ottinger Foundation Inc

How much does The Ottinger Foundation Inc give?
The Ottinger Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ottinger Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (50%), Public Benefit (10%), Education (9%).
Who are The Ottinger Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Equal Justice Works ($473k), Pace University ($144k), Environmental and Energy Study Institute ($140k).
Does The Ottinger Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ottinger Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ottinger Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Ottinger Foundation Inc based?
The Ottinger Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 26 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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