Mississippi · Private foundation
Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust
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.
- $6.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 74
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 46 | $6.9M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $7.9M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $7.4M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $8.2M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $7.4M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $5.4M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 68 | $5.0M | 29% |
| FY2017 | 71 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share Our Strength | $13,304,850 | 8 | 5% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $4,836,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Building Goodness Foundation | $2,245,210 | 4 | 52% |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $2,010,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | $1,910,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Affordable Housing Corporation | $1,500,000 | 3 | 81% |
| The Authors Guild Foundation Inc | $1,137,500 | 5 | 23% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $1,002,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Cav Futures Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc | $890,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · Sentara Health · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust
- How much does Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust give?
- Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust reported 46 grants totaling $6,858,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Health (14%), Education (11%).
- Who are Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Share Our Strength ($13M), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($4.8M), Building Goodness Foundation ($2.2M).
- Does Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust 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 Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The J & E Berkley Foundation, Perry Foundation Inc.
- Where is Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust based?
- Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust is based in MS.
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