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Live Oak Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$233k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MHealth$201kEnvironment$127kHuman Services$117kAnimals$46kReligion$22kPhilanthropy$18kEducation$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING HALL OF FAME$110,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
GRAYSON -JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
DOUBLE H RANCH$7,500
THE CONSERVATION FUND$5,000
564 PRESERVATION FUND$5,000
NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
THE LITTLE CLUB 1896 FOUNDATION$5,000
BEST$4,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER$2,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$2,500
ST JAMES' CHURCH$2,000
CHRIST MEMORIAL CHAPEL$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$2,000
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY20–24, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%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

ME
VT
MI
NY
PA
NJ
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 45 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
8

Total granted

$1.4M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+53%

Still filing today

69%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $825k · revenue +17%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $103k · revenue +40%
  • GC
    GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TC
    TREASURE COAST HOSPICE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • FR
    FRESH RX INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +53%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

1
The Jockey Club

The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…

Recreation & Sports
2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
4
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.

—
5
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
6
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Little Club 1896 Foundation 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 65 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)
41/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $825,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INCJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,800 · Arts & CultureJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC+5 more: $23,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING HALL OF FAME: $110,000 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $17,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERV…BEST: $10,500 · OtherCHRIST MEMORIAL CHAPEL: $9,000 · OtherDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $24,500 · OtherDOUBLE H HOLE IN T…+34 more: $88,450 · Other+34 moreFair Hill Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyFair Hill…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter M…HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUN…THE LITTLE CLUB 1896 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $107,000 · Human ServicesBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesJupiter Medical Center Inc: $102,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · AnimalsEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $3,500 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 · AnimalsTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $1,500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$899,300Other$259,950Philanthropy$141,000Human Services$117,000Health$110,000Animals$45,750Environment$34,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $825,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $107,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $102,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFair Hill Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,800 over 3y, 73% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $24,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE CLUB 1896 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRESH RX INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRODEHEAVER BOYS RANCH INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $50 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.

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.

Ethel D Colket Founda…Colket Family Foundat…St Clair Charitable T…Legatus FoundationHugh and Patricia Oka…CMB FoundationHunter Family Foundat…The James E & Constan…The David and Elizabe…The Krimendahlsaint-A…Mary K Oxley Foundati…Donald Grant & Ann Ma…
Ethel D Colket FoundationPA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Legatus Foundation · Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · CMB Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation Inc · The James E & Constance L Bell Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · The Krimendahlsaint-Amand Foundation · Mary K Oxley Foundation · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat

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 Live Oak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Live Oak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Live Oak Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Live Oak 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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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