California · Private foundation
Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $902k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $232,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $709k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $623k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $580k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $573k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $488k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $580k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $590k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warm Blankets Childrens Foundation Inc Dba Kinship United | $212,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Marion Senior Services Inc | $137,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Cheshire Academy | $129,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Care Foundation | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $95,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Homeless Cats Incorporated | $47,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Marymount High School | $47,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Veterans Park Conservancy | $44,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $43,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
Compare Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation
- How much does Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation give?
- Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $901,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Religion (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Warm Blankets Childrens Foundation Inc Dba Kinship United ($212k), Marion Senior Services Inc ($138k), The Cheshire Academy ($130k).
- Does Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ahmanson Foundation, Assurant Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation based?
- Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation is based in CA.
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