· Community foundation
Community Foundation for Oak Park
To support needed and desired oak park community programs and projects by acting as a governing body and tax-exempt umbrella for community groups and donor-defined funds.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUND & DONOR DESIGNATED FUNDS | $10,975 |
| OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $3,500 |
| OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $3,376 |
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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- OPOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $34k
- OPOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUND & DONOR DESIGNATED FUNDS3× · 2019–2021 · $26k
- OPOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2021 · $18k
Funded once
- OPOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - OAK PARK GARDENERSone grant, 2017 · $60
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2021.
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 2017–2021, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 7 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.