New York · Nonprofit
OLVIA'S BEARS
OLVIA'S BEARS (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,372 to it, the largest being THE OSC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Olvia's Bears does
Mission
Olivia's bears is a not-for-profit organization, created by olivia gonyea and her family in 2009. Olivia was diagnosed with ewings sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in 2009 at the age of eight. As of october 1st, 2010, olivia has been cancer-free. Before olivia's treatment ended, she wanted to find a way to start giving back to the community. Touched by the gift of a build- a-bear that she received before going into one of her surgeries, she decided she wanted to start delivering bears to other children receiving medical treatment at children's hospital. With the help of friends and family, olivia's bears started with a small delivery of 20 bears. Now 14 years later, over a thousand bears have been delivered to children and their siblings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Donation of thousands of bears and other goods/services delivered to sick children and their siblings all across wny.
$51,447 spent90% of program spendingScholarships awarded to local teens.
$6,000 spent10% of program spendingInstrumental in the development and funding of a teen lounge at john r. Oishei children's hospital
Annual golf tournament to raise additional funds.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,447.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $44k (−29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of OLVIA'S BEARS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $84.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OLVIA'S BEARS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OLVIA'S BEARS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of OLVIA'S BEARS's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $272 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OLVIA'S BEARS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,043 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OLVIA'S BEARS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLVIA'S BEARS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OLVIA'S BEARS?
- OLVIA'S BEARS (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,372 to it, the largest being THE OSC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLVIA'S BEARS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,372 in grants to OLVIA'S BEARS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLVIA'S BEARS?
- THE OSC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLVIA'S BEARS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing