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Oakie Charitable Foundation Trust Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of OAKIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS | $65,000 |
| RUBICON THEATRE COMPANY | $31,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
| ACADEMY OF MAGICAL ARTS | $11,350 |
| VALLEY RELICS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL VARIETY ARTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CINECON CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL INC | $8,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF MAGIC FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ZOPPE FAMILY INC | $1,000 |
| NATE'S PLACE | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Oakie Charitable Foundation Trust Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $198k · revenue +45%- DVDAI VERNON FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $9k · revenue +18%
- IAINNER-CITY ARTS3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SCSANTA CLARITA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2021 · $13k
- CTCANYON THEATRE GUILDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +230%
- LALOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
Tk-12 charter public school focused on educational equity and success for all students with a priority on tradionally underserved populations.
Believing in the power of theatre to startle the soul, ignite, debate and embrace the diversity of the community in which it serves, the theatre is fearlessly committed to the dissection, examination and celebration of the human story…
City hearts is dedicated to combating inequities in arts access. specifically, we provide high-impact, holistic visual and performing arts education to underserved elementary, middle, and high school students in los angeles. our classes…
Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…
The colburn school's founding principle of "access to excellence" provides a performance-centered education with unparalleled faculty and facilities for all levels of development, instills the joy and discipline of the performing arts,…
To present, in a rotating repertory, the finest latin american, spanish, and latino usa theatre and to serve as a catalyst for cultural exchange between spanish and english speaking americans.
San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
Lachey arts, inc. is focused on using the arts to build a diverse community of young artists, empowering the creative spirit and giving the confidence and tools to change the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Granada Hills Charter and the most unlike its peers is Dai Vernon 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.
10 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANYON THEATRE GUILD ↗
- Who funds DAI VERNON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRANADA HILLS CHARTER ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STARS Academy ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE MOTHERS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Oakie Charitable Foundation Trust Charitable 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.
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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