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The Ottinger Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE THE ROAD$75,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$75,000
MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT$75,000
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE$50,000
PACE UNIVERSITY$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PARENTS TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 5 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$1.0M
$577k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+161%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PU
    PACE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $144k · revenue +21%
  • EA
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +53%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    2× · 2017–2023 · $101k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    one grant, 2017 · $179k
  • STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +154%
  • ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZINGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +248%
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.

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Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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4
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
5
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
6
Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc

Ipc's purpose is to lessen the burdens of government and to protect, promote and preserve the natural environment by: 1) developing and supporting programs to finance and stimulate demand for clean energy investment in residential,…

Environment
7
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

—
8
Progressive Technology Project Inc

Progressive technology project (ptp) is organizing resistance to oppressive corporate technologies through political education, movement building, and creating people-controlled technology that serves the needs of community organizations.…

Philanthropy
9
Association of Legal Administrators

Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.

—
10
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Michigan Organizing Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $178,500 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSTIDES FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $140,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTEMAKE THE ROAD: $75,000 · OtherMAKE THE ROADElizabeth Haub School of Law: $40,000 · OtherElizabeth Haub School of LawLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherPACE UNIVERSITY (PACE COMMUNITY LAW PRACTICE): $30,000 · OtherMOVEMENT LABS: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $72,685 · Other+5 moreEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $472,500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSMake the Road New York: $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalPACE UNIVERSITY: $144,300 · EducationPACE UNIVE…WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · EducationWORKING AM…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,500 · Public BenefitNEO Phila…STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $50,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEM…ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $40,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $75,000 · PhilanthropyParentsTogether Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesBEDFORD 2030 INC: $1,000 · Environment
Other$741,185Crime & Legal$502,500Education$154,300Public Benefit$150,500Civil Rights$90,000Philanthropy$75,000Human Services$20,000Environment$1,000

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

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
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.

Tides FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tides FoundationCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ottinger Foundation Inc?

    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.

    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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