Does The Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents 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 Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Luther I Replogle Foundation.

The Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents Inc

The Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents 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.

$125k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$510kEnvironment$172kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$34kInternational$33kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $40k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$72k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$50,000
POTMAC CONSERVANCY	$25,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL	$10,000
CAPITAL AREA FOODBANK	$5,000
RESILIENCE ACROSS BORDERS	$5,000
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000
LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$5,000
SONGWRITING WITH SOLDIERS	$5,000
COMFORT KITS FOR KIDS	$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$5,000
FOOD AND FRIENDS	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$832k · 23 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$832k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+5%

Still filing today

91%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

University of Chicago
8× · 2017–2025 · $398k · revenue +56%
TP
THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +38%
CA
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +80%

Funded once

CE
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $5k
TF
THE FIELD SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +57%
SJ
SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +5%

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.

Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement

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

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

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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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition

The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education

Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services

Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…

Food & Nutrition

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spur Local Inc; the most unlike its peers is Power to Decide. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

23/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$408,400Other$275,500Environment$97,000Health$61,500Food & Nutrition$39,500International$32,500Philanthropy$18,000

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.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Luther I Replogle Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · The Steele Family Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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