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The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $329k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+2 grants · $815k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STORM KING ART CENTER$450,000
CHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC$365,000
FAIR TIDE$70,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC$55,000
BLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER$27,500
INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS$25,275
BARD COLLEGE$25,000
CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$25,000
WORKER JUSTICE CENTER OF NY$20,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$20,000
TIDES CENTER$15,000
RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY$15,000
BUILDERS OF THE HIGHWAY FOUNDATION$15,000
BLACK FARMER FUND INC$15,000
NORTH STAR FUND$15,000
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 (FY17–23, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LA LUZ CENTER: $5k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CTR: $5k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHIL: $8k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $33k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $31k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK: $5k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $12k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $5k → 11%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $5k → 14%HOOPS EXPRESS: $3k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $20k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 94 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
98

Total granted

$14M
$758k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+42%

Still filing today

70%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalEducationHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SK
    STORM KING ART CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +66%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +256%
  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $186k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTERE
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -21%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -85%
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.

1
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
2
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
3
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
4
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
9
Next River

Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.

Social Science
10
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
11
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hoops Express Inc. 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

158 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. 158 of the 211 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/158
Grantees still filing
109/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STORM KING ART CENTER: $6,604,050 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTER+11 more: $151,500 · Arts & CultureCHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC: $2,764,736 · Food & NutritionCHESTER AGRICULTURAL …LAND TO LEARN: $117,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $150,500 · Food & NutritionRURAL MIGRANT MINISTRIES: $239,025 · OtherRURAL MIGRANT MINISTRIESNORTH STAR FUND INC: $111,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER: $155,700 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI: $137,500 · OtherHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $130,000 · Other+122 more: $2,545,358 · Other+122 moreBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC: $320,000 · EnvironmentMANITOGA INC: $89,000 · EnvironmentKITTERY LAND TRUST INC: $78,500 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson Inc: $65,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $59,000 · EnvironmentORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $52,685 · EnvironmentYANSA INC: $28,000 · Environment+12 more: $115,235 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL PARTNERS CASSIE STERN MEMORIAL INC: $304,100 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $186,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $65,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $43,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $30,000 · International+7 more: $59,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $250,000 · Civil RightsCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC: $70,000 · Civil RightsBrandworkers International Inc: $40,950 · Civil RightsCORO NEW YORK LEADERSHIP CENTER: $40,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $38,100 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $35,000 · Civil RightsFreedom for Immigrants: $30,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $37,000 · Civil RightsBARD COLLEGE: $235,000 · EducationNABU GLOBAL INC: $95,000 · EducationThe New School: $80,000 · EducationNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $21,000 · EducationHAWK MOUNTAIN EARTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH: $20,000 · Education+5 more: $55,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$6,755,550Food & Nutrition$3,032,236Other$3,318,583Environment$807,420International$687,100Civil Rights$541,050Education$526,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $155,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI: $137,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $117,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $111,000 over 7y, 0.2% 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 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.

  • Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS CASSIE STERN MEMORIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI ↗
  • Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBORS OF THE HUDSON INC ↗
  • Who funds NABU GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Fair Tide ↗
  • Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds The New School ↗
  • Who funds KITTERY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
  • Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
  • Who funds RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON TURKEY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON GROUND FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗

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.

Novo FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Community Foundations…The Dyson FoundationImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncCommon Counsel Founda…Community Foundation …New York State Health…Tides FoundationProteus Fund IncThe Ford Foundation
Novo FoundationNY47× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Novo Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The Ford 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 Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph E Ogden Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
32report 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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Find your warmest path to The Ralph E Ogden 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 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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