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Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation

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.

$689k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$1.3MReligion$680kEducation$536kHuman Services$310kArts & Culture$235kYouth Development$221kAnimals$70kRecreation & Sports$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
$6,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA CENTER FOR EAST WEST MEDICINE$185,000
UCLA CENTER FOR NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS$100,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$60,000
MARION COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES$25,000
KINSHIP UNITED$25,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC$22,000
JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE (DEVELOPMENT OFFICE)$20,000
CHESHIRE ACADEMY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER NORTH TEXAS$12,000
ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL$11,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARION COUNTY$10,500
DUKE UNIVERSITY (DEPT OF ALLERGY PULMONARY & CRITICAL CARE)$10,000
UCLA FOUNDATION FUND 62999C$10,000
MARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARIN LINK: $6k → 8%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 12%COLLEAGUES: $500 → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $8k → 17%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5k → 12%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5k → 12%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $4k → 12%FULFILLMENT FUND: $1k → 14%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 51 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
41

Total granted

$3.0M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+33%

Still filing today

43%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MS
    MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $118k · revenue +44%
  • TC
    THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +16%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATION FUND 6107
    one grant, 2019 · $16k
  • UD
    UCLA DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY (FINANCE OFFICE)
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • JS
    JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $13k

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

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

6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

8
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Native Art New Mexico Inc. 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 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%48%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,904

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

64 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 115 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
38/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATIONCAIM (UCLA DIVISION OF DIGESTIVE DISEASES) — $950,000 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATIONCAIM (UCLA DIVISION OF DIGESTIVE DISEASES)UCLA FOUNDATIONCAIM — $660,000 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATIONCAIMUCLA CENTER FOR EAST WEST MEDICINE — $186,500 · OtherUCLA CENTER FOR EAST WEST MEDICINEFAMILY CARE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC — $117,500 · OtherUCLA CENTER FOR NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS — $100,000 · Other+74 more — $832,400 · Other+74 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $163,000 · EducationThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $17,500 · Education+9 more — $18,500 · EducationWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED — $187,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $84,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $36,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $22,000 · Arts & CultureDUNBAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TRANSFORMATION CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesMARIN LINK INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of North Texas Inc — $1,500 · Human Services+2 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesWILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $17,500 · AnimalsSHELTERING HANDS INC — $5,500 · AnimalsGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATION AND EDUCATION REPTILE RESCUE INC — $2,500 · AnimalsDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthJULES AND DORIS STEIN UCLA SUPPORT GROUP — $2,500 · Health
Other$2,971,400Education$199,000Youth Development$191,000Arts & Culture$156,000Human Services$36,500Animals$30,500Health$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED — $187,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $163,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC — $117,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY — $94,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $84,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS PARK CONSERVANCY — $44,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc — $34,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRANSFORMATION CENTER — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBiz Owners Ed Inc — $13,800 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLASTONBURY ABC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREEPENNY REVIEW — $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARIN LINK INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING HANDS INC — $5,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNACDL FOUNDATION FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dallas Opera — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS TIMBERS ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES INC — $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLynchburg Homeschool Athletic Association — $4,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION AND EDUCATION REPTILE RESCUE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJULES AND DORIS STEIN UCLA SUPPORT GROUP — $2,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOLS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of North Texas Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE OF WILDWORKS — $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY CARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC
  • Who funds THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds VETERANS PARK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds The Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc
  • Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER
  • Who funds WILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC
  • Who funds Biz Owners Ed Inc
  • Who funds PEDIPLACE INC

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.

The Ahmanson FoundationCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · Assurant Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Shell USA Company 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 Gerald Oppenheimer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 69%
  • Angel of Edgewood Inc100% of income from government
  • Lawyers Without Borders Inc69% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc5% of income from government
  • Marion Senior Services Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gerald Oppenheimer 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 115 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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