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Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$233k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.3MReligion$680kEducation$536kHuman Services$310kArts & Culture$235kYouth Development$221kAnimals$70kRecreation & Sports$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $477k
$5,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA CENTER FOR EAST WEST MEDICINE$232,500
UCLA FOUNDATION$194,000
UCLA CENTER FOR NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS$50,000
CHESHIRE ACADEMY$35,000
JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE (DEVELOPMENT OFFICE)$35,000
KINSHIP UNITED$25,000
UCLA FOUNDATION FUND 62999C$20,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER NORTH TEXAS$20,000
MARION COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES$20,000
CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER$15,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$12,000
GLASTONBURY ABC INC$12,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC$11,000
PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$10,000
MARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARIN LINK: $6k → 8%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $6k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $8k → 17%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5k → 12%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $5k → 12%COLLEAGUES: $500 → 14%THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $4k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
MN
IL
NY
SD
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 68 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
43

Total granted

$3.9M
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+28%

Still filing today

47%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MS
    MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $138k · revenue +44%
  • TC
    THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +16%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $96k · revenue +31%

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
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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.

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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
Boston Architectural College

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

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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
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
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
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…

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9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
11
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
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 129 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
39/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $419,000 · OtherUCLA CENTER FOR EAST WEST MEDICINEUCLA CENTER FOR NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS: $150,000 · OtherMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC: $137,500 · OtherTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY: $129,500 · OtherFAMILY CARE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Other+80 more: $953,150 · Other+80 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $357,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…The Florida State University Foundation Inc: $22,500 · EducationThe Florid…+10 more: $34,750 · Education+10 moreWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED: $212,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLASTONBURY YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLynchburg Homeschool Athletic Association: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $95,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $43,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $22,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $17,500 · AnimalsCONSERVATION AND EDUCATION REPTILE RESCUE INC: $12,500 · AnimalsSAFE HAVEN SANCTUARY INC: $6,000 · AnimalsSHELTERING HANDS INC: $5,500 · AnimalsGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $6,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · HealthJULES AND DORIS STEIN UCLA SUPPORT GROUP: $2,500 · HealthTHE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $24,000 · 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 Services
Other$3,524,150Education$414,250Youth Development$232,000Arts & Culture$207,500Animals$46,500Health$46,000Human Services$40,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $357,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED: $212,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC: $137,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY: $129,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $95,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS PARK CONSERVANCY: $44,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $43,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Club of Marion County Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $24,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLASTONBURY ABC INC: $22,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC: $20,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetWILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBiz Owners Ed Inc: $16,800 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION AND EDUCATION REPTILE RESCUE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 36% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLASTONBURY YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetLynchburg Homeschool Athletic Association: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $8,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 71: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHREEPENNY REVIEW: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARIN LINK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HAVEN SANCTUARY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCROSS TIMBERS ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING HANDS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNACDL FOUNDATION FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULES AND DORIS STEIN UCLA SUPPORT GROUP: $2,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of 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.

  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED ↗
  • Who funds MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLASTONBURY ABC INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIPLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Biz Owners Ed Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…Assurant FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Coserv Charitable Fou…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Chubb Charitable Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…Greater HorizonsShell USA Company Fou…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Angel of Edgewood Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Lawyers Without Borders Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Marion Senior Services Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 129 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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