Tennessee · Private foundation
Great Oaks 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Great Oaks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $185k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $355k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $336k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $341k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Memphis Foundation | $177,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Olympic Club Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Memphis Jewish Community Center | $91,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Kenyon College | $37,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Chatham Orpheum Theater Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Dixon Gallery and Gardens | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Opera Memphis Inc | $20,250 | 2 | 1% |
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Memphis University School | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Great Oaks Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Scheidt Family Foundation Inc · Plough Foundation · Belz Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Lawrence Lewis Foundation · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Great Oaks Foundation
- How much does Great Oaks Foundation give?
- Great Oaks Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,323,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Great Oaks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Education (21%), Philanthropy (21%).
- Who are Great Oaks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Memphis Foundation ($177k), Olympic Club Foundation ($100k), Memphis Jewish Community Center ($91k).
- Does Great Oaks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Great Oaks 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 Great Oaks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Scheidt Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Great Oaks Foundation based?
- Great Oaks Foundation is based in TN.
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