Arizona · Private foundation
The Ottosen Family Foundation
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.
- $893k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Ottosen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $843k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $780k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $582k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $741k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $769k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $576k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $617k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Health Foundation | $1,575,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Hospice of the Valley | $1,190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Desert Botanical Garden Inc | $335,838 | 6 | 0% |
| Ballet Arizona | $221,800 | 6 | 1% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Heard Museum | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($877k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ottosen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · American Express Foundation · Twiford Foundation · L Roy Papp Charitable Trust · The Herberger Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ottosen Family Foundation
- How much does The Ottosen Family Foundation give?
- The Ottosen Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $893,078 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Ottosen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (60%), Environment (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are The Ottosen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Banner Health Foundation ($1.6M), Hospice of the Valley ($1.2M), Desert Botanical Garden Inc ($336k).
- Does The Ottosen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ottosen Family Foundation 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 Ottosen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, Thunderbirds Charities.
- Where is The Ottosen Family Foundation based?
- The Ottosen Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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