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The Ralph E Ogden 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$450,000
Organizations funded a year
37 to 72
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$33M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving35$1.3M29%
FY202337$2.4M22%
FY202251$2.0M41%
FY202153$1.6M28%
FY202072$2.0M42%
FY201968$1.3M34%
FY201867$1.9M34%
FY201772$2.6Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.9MFood & Nutrition$3.2MEnvironment$771kInternational$707kEducation$547kPhilanthropy$545kCivil Rights$516kHuman Services$430kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 152 grantees
All grantees of The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Storm King Art Center$6,604,050816%
Chester Agricultural Center Inc$2,764,736629%
Black Rock Forest Consortium Inc$320,00075%
International Partners Cassie Stern Memorial Inc$304,100729%
Center for Constitutional Rights$250,00080%
Bard College$235,00080%
Grassroots International Inc$186,00070%
Hawthorne Valley Association Inc$130,00040%
Land to Learn$117,00077%
Black Belt Justice Center$105,00056%
Safe Harbors of the Hudson Inc$95,37572%
Nabu Global Inc$95,00044%
Fair Tide$90,00032%
Manitoga Inc$89,00045%
Hudson Valley Community Services Inc$85,00040%
Innocence Project New Orleans$80,27551%
The New School$80,00040%
Kittery Land Trust Inc$78,50067%
Cultural Survival Inc$70,00070%
Scenic Hudson Inc$65,00050%
Thousand Currents$65,00060%
Research Institute on Turkey Inc$60,000519%
Open Space Institute Inc$59,00041%
Common Ground Farm Inc$58,00064%
Orange County Land Trust Inc$52,68535%
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc$52,50031%
Correctional Association of New York$50,00022%
Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc$45,00044%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$43,00030%
Brandworkers International Inc$40,95063%
Coro New York Leadership Center$40,00021%
Black Farmer Fund Inc$40,00031%
The Innocence Project Inc$40,00030%
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc$40,00031%
Free Speech for People Inc$38,10051%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$35,00010%
Regional Plan Association Inc$35,00020%
The Corbin Hill Food Project Inc$35,00023%
Right to the City Alliance$35,00021%
Builders of The Highway Foundation Inc$30,00023%
Freedom for Immigrants$30,00031%
International Rescue Committee INC$30,00020%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc$28,17051%
Yansa Inc$28,000210%
The City College Fund$25,00030%
National School Climate Center$25,0001n/a
Riverkeeper Inc$25,0002n/a
Palisades Parks Conservancy Inc$25,000112%
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc$25,00011%
Glynwood Center Inc$22,98830%
Our Core Incorporated$22,000255%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$22,00050%
North House Folk School$21,00030%
Whyhunger Inc$20,00030%
Razom Inc$20,00020%
Newburgh Music Chamber Inc$20,000419%
New Learning Journey Inc$20,000114%
Hawk Mountain Earth Center Inc$20,000138%
San Miguel Academy of Newburgh$20,0002n/a
Friends of Morningside Park Inc$16,00038%
Common Future$15,00010%
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley$15,00030%
House of Tulip$15,00021%
Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe$15,0001n/a
San Francisco Study Center Inc$15,00010%
Unison Learning Center Inc$15,00015%
Rural & Migrant Ministry Inc$15,00011%
Greater Seacoast Community Health$15,00020%
Global Health Partners Inc$15,00013%
Institute for Nonprofit News$15,00020%
Newburgh Community Land Bank$15,00011%
The McLean School of Maryland Inc$10,00010%
Cape Cod Modern House Trust$10,00011%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00010%
Strawbery Banke Museum$10,00010%
The Brearley School$10,00010%
Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc$10,00024%
Healing Justice Project$10,00011%
Maryland Philanthropy Network$10,00010%
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc$10,00010%
First Grace Community Alliance$10,00022%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$10,00010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00010%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$9,23530%
Howland Chamber Music Circle Inc$9,0003n/a
Human Rights Watch Inc$8,00020%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$8,00010%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$7,50010%
Church at the Bridge Inc$7,5002n/a
Putney School Inc$6,00020%
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc$6,00020%
Emgage Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$6,00010%
La Luz Center$5,00010%
Teambrownsville Inc$5,00010%
Newburgh Rowing Club$5,00019%
Saint Albans Episcopal Church$5,0001n/a
Old Berwick Historical Society$5,00015%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$5,00010%
Newburgh Lgbtqia Center$5,0001n/a
Center for Third World Organizing$5,00010%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
Unkitawa$5,00010%
Seacoast Eat Local Inc$5,00011%
The Skyline Charitable Foundation Inc$5,00010%
The Clara Lionel Foundation$5,00010%
The Ascienzo Family Foundation$5,00011%
Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant$5,0001n/a
Honor the Earth$5,00010%
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc$5,00014%
United Houma Nation Inc$5,00010%
Central American Resource Center$5,00010%
Doctors for Global Health Inc$5,00011%
Operation Restoration$5,00010%
American Friends Service Committee$5,0001n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$5,00010%
First Nations Development Institute$5,00010%
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi$5,00010%
Cispes Education Fund$5,00011%
Women With A Vision$5,00010%
Great Works Regional Land Trust$5,00010%
White Pine Programs$5,00021%
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Allian$5,00011%
Ulster Immigrant Defense Network$5,00011%
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Inc$5,00011%
Bear Project Inc$5,00012%
The Descendants Project$5,00013%
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance$5,00016%
Capital Innovation Lab Inc$5,0001n/a
The Brigid Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Philanthropy New York Inc$4,05070%
Rural Coalition$3,30020%
Chicago Abortion Fund$3,00010%
Midwest Access Coalition$3,00010%
Northwest Abortion Access Fund$3,00010%
Florida Access Network$3,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$2,50010%
Hoops Express Inc$2,5001n/a
Hope on Haven Hill Inc$2,50010%
Prospect Park Alliance Inc$2,50010%
Neighborhood Funders Group$1,20020%
American Friends of Attingham Inc$1,0001n/a
Orange County Ny Arts Council Inc$1,00011%
The Sentencing Project$1,00010%
Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$75010%
Mohonk Consultations Inc$50011%
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill Inc$40010%
Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc$40010%
Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progressinc$39010%
World Monuments Fund Inc$3501n/a
Vision Hudson Valley$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStorm King Art Center: $6,604,050 over 8y, 16% of budgetChester Agricultural Center Inc: $2,764,736 over 6y, 29% of budgetBlack Rock Forest Consortium Inc: $320,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetInternational Partners Cassie Stern Memorial Inc: $304,100 over 7y, 29% of budgetCenter for Constitutional Rights: $250,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBard College: $235,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGrassroots International Inc: $186,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHawthorne Valley Association Inc: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLand to Learn: $117,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetBlack Belt Justice Center: $105,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetSafe Harbors of the Hudson Inc: $95,375 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetNabu Global Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetFair Tide: $90,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetManitoga Inc: $89,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHudson Valley Community Services Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInnocence Project New Orleans: $80,275 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetThe New School: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKittery Land Trust Inc: $78,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetCultural Survival Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThousand Currents: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetResearch Institute on Turkey Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetOpen Space Institute Inc: $59,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCommon Ground Farm Inc: $58,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetOrange County Land Trust Inc: $52,685 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNational Young Farmers Coalition Inc: $52,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCorrectional Association of New York: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMilk With Dignity Standards Council Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrandworkers International Inc: $40,950 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCoro New York Leadership Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBlack Farmer Fund Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFree Speech for People Inc: $38,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Foundation for the Arts Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRegional Plan Association Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Corbin Hill Food Project Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRight to the City Alliance: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBuilders of The Highway Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFreedom for Immigrants: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConfluence Philanthropy Inc: $28,170 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYansa Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe City College Fund: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPalisades Parks Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNew York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGlynwood Center Inc: $22,988 over 3y, 0.4% 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 138.

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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.

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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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About The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc

How much does The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc give?
The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $1,329,975 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Environment (5%).
Who are The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Storm King Art Center ($6.6M), Chester Agricultural Center Inc ($2.8M), Black Rock Forest Consortium Inc ($320k).
Does The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ralph E Ogden 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 Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Novo Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc.
Where is The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc based?
The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 211 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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