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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.

$18k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$58kArts & Culture$51kFood & Nutrition$60
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$410k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 6 repeat orgs$60 to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$109k
$60

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • OP
    OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $34k
  • OP
    OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUND & DONOR DESIGNATED FUNDS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $26k
  • OP
    OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $18k

Funded once

  • OP
    OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - OAK PARK GARDENERS
    one grant, 2017 · $60
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2021.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $33,579 · OtherOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ASSOCIATIONOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUND & DONOR DESIGNATED FUNDS: $25,997 · OtherOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUND & DONOR DESIGNATED FUNDSOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE: $17,500 · OtherOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCEOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUND: $15,987 · OtherOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - GENERAL FUNDOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY CLUB: $10,525 · OtherOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY CLUBOAK PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $5,192 · Other+1 more: $60 · Other
Other$108,840

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $25k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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