Vermont · Private foundation
Oakland Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $231k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Oakland Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 77 | $231k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $233k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $219k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $170k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $167k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $185k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $195k | 49% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $180k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative | $58,566 | 9 | 10% |
| Wvu at Parkersburg Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Shelburne Museum Inc | $49,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Francis Xavier Church | $48,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The High Rocks Educational Corporation | $41,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Shelburne Farms | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Blackwater Ministerial Association | $36,080 | 9 | 6% |
| Alpine Heritage Preservation Inc | $32,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Active Southern West Virginia Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 2% |
| The Current Inc | $27,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 112 recipients with no EIN on record ($548k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oakland Foundation Inc 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · James E Robison Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Oakland Foundation Inc
- How much does Oakland Foundation Inc give?
- Oakland Foundation Inc reported 80 grants totaling $230,845 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oakland Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (14%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Oakland Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative ($59k), Wvu at Parkersburg Foundation Inc ($50k), Shelburne Museum Inc ($49k).
- Does Oakland Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oakland Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oakland Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is Oakland Foundation Inc based?
- Oakland Foundation Inc is based in VT.
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