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Van Otterloo Family Foundation

To provide support for educational enterprises that demonstrate innovation and excellence in teaching and learning while placing emphasis on the potential of all individuals, target unmet educational needs, or provide an exemplary educational program.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$6.9MYouth Development$2.4MHuman Services$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$859kEmployment$625kEnvironment$321kCommunity Improvement$297kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $919k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $474k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
O-HIGHER ED$60,000
THACHER SCHOOL$57,500
OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL$53,500
LEAP FOR EDUCATION INC$53,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$50,000
WESTRIDGE SCHOOL$50,000
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$50,000
EXPRESS YOURSELF$50,000
CENTERBOARD$50,000
NORTHSHORE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC$47,000
ROOT NS INC$40,000
LEADS$40,000
HOPE (HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC)$35,000
CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$35,000
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM$31,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PACIFIC CLINICS: $25k → 8%CHILDCARE RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 12%THE VOICES FACES PROJECT: $38k → 14%LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $101k → 9%HOPE (HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC): $35k → 11%ROOM TO GROW: $35k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $30k → 28%Childcare Resources: $25k → 12%THE VOICES FACES PROJECT: $15k → 14%LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $101k → 9%HOPE (HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC): $35k → 11%ROOM TO GROW: $25k → 17%THE VOICES FACES PROJECT: $15k → 14%LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $28k → 9%HOPE (HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC): $30k → 11%LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $26k → 9%HOPE (HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC): $25k → 11%LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $21k → 9%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 16%NEXT STEP: $25k → 8%NEXT STEP: $25k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 16%Next Step: $20k → 8%NEXT STEP: $15k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $38k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $35k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $26k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $25k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $52k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $51k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $40k → 10%Beverly Children's Learning Center: $35k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $25k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $25k → 10%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $31k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $30k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $30k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $30k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $30k → 16%YMCA of North Shore: $500 → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE (FORMERLY BOYS): $500k → 10%Plummer Youth Promise (formerly Home): $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 84 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
34

Total granted

$13M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+34%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +492% · 41% of their budget
  • SQUASHBUSTERS INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $575k · revenue +19%
  • PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $510k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • CM
    Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +132%
  • KM
    KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -17%
  • A
    AMEGOINCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +160%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
4
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Northeastern University
Education
9
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
10
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
11
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
12
Lycee International De Boston International School of Boston Inc

The international school of boston (isb) is an independent, non-profit, preschool-12 french-english bilingual and international school located in cambridge, massachusetts, in one of the most vibrant metropolitan areas in the united states.…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spaulding Academy & Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Project Rise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Mentoring ProgramsAddiction Recovery ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Development CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Dance Arts OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesYmca Youth DevelopmentFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr14%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr14%28%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/135
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,223

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 135 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/129
Grantees still filing
91/129
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC — $1,653,500 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INCCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $248,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $177,200 · EducationELEVATED THOUGHT INC — $175,000 · EducationLEAP for Education Inc — $171,500 · Education+40 more — $2,700,700 · Education+40 moreSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,028,500 · OtherSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLPATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC — $185,000 · OtherTHACHER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $163,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INC — $150,560 · OtherNORTHEAST ARC INC — $150,000 · OtherESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $286,100 · OtherESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $150,000 · OtherROOT NS INC — $171,500 · OtherGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $160,000 · Other+38 more — $1,832,313 · Other+38 morePLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC — $510,150 · Human ServicesPLUMMER YOUTH PR…LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC — $276,290 · Human ServicesLAKES REGION COM…BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY CHILDREN…BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $150,500 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOM…YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $127,950 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NORT…HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF POSSIBI…WELLSPRING HOUSE INC — $123,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC — $85,000 · Human Services+4 more — $181,000 · Human Services+4 moreSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $575,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC — $50,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $51,314 · Youth DevelopmentPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $200,300 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $90,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $78,923 · Arts & CultureSouthwest Florida Music Education Center Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureEssex Art Center Inc — $54,000 · Arts & CultureEXPRESS YOURSELF INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $75,500 · Arts & CultureTENACITY INC — $640,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $100 · Recreation & SportsFranciscan Hospital for Children — $125,000 · HealthSPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES — $105,200 · HealthAMEGOINC — $75,000 · HealthASPIRE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC — $65,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $25,000 · Health
Education$5,125,900Other$4,276,973Human Services$2,168,890Youth Development$1,111,314Arts & Culture$928,723Recreation & Sports$640,100Health$395,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC — $1,653,500 over 5y, 41% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,028,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTENACITY INC — $640,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $575,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC — $510,150 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $286,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC — $276,290 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC — $250,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $248,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $200,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC — $185,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $180,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $177,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATED THOUGHT INC — $175,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetROOT NS INC — $171,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc — $171,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHACHER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $163,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC — $162,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $160,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $150,560 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $150,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven Project Inc — $135,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $131,475 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $130,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $130,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $127,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $125,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC — $125,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $125,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC — $123,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBlessed Stephen Bellesini OSA Academy Inc — $111,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT — $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLEARN TO LEAD FOUNDATION OF LOWELL INC — $110,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES — $105,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSEEDMONEY — $105,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $101,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $100,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetFriends of Northshore Education Consortium — $91,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Essex County Communit…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Salem Five Charitable…Institution for Savin…Rogers Family Foundat…United Way Of Massach…Amelia Peabody Founda…American Tower Corpor…Edward S & Winifred G…The Peter and Elizabe…
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA73.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Van Otterloo Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
  • House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc — 45% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Aspire Developmental Services Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
  • North Shore Maritime Center — 24% of income from government
  • Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
  • Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Next Step Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Beyond Walls Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Spur Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Lesley University — 1% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
  • Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Van Otterloo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Van Otterloo Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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