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Oates Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$5.7MHealth$361kCommunity Improvement$323kEducation$318kInternational$241kHuman Services$230kArts & Culture$156kRecreation & Sports$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $264k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD$1,265,500
ALLIANCE FOR COMPASSION AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMEN$137,250
BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS$77,000
BUILDING BLOCKS NON PROFIT$50,000
UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE$27,000
SACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF ASSOCIATION$26,500
AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS$25,500
STONIER SCHOLARSHIP INC$25,000
COOK FOUNDATION$25,000
MIKUNI CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$20,000
HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION$20,000
KYLES FAMILY FOUNDATION$16,336
DRIVING OUT CANCER INC$15,000
WESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP$15,000
YES YOUNG ENOUGH TO SERVE$15,000
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 (FY17–25, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $5k → 16%BRIDGE NETWORK: $5k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $3k → 16%TREATEM LIKE A KING: $3k → 12%TREATEM LIKE A KING: $3k → 12%ST HOPE ACADEMY: $10k → 12%HEART OF JB: $26k → 12%HEART OF JB: $3k → 12%BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $77k → 12%SAINT JOHNS PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $30k → 12%TREAT EM LIKE A KING: $3k → 12%TREATEM LIKE A KING: $3k → 12%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
SC
DC
OK
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 41 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
68

Total granted

$8.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+6%

Still filing today

66%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • WJ
    WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +49%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $144k · revenue +16%
  • TH
    THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION)
    4× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • DC
    Destiny Community Services
    one grant, 2023 · $305k · revenue -29%
  • E
    EASEACED
    one grant, 2017 · $80k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -32%
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
Sacramento Kings Foundation
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2
The Scga Foundation

The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…

Recreation & Sports
3
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
4
California Cricket Foundation
Recreation & Sports
5
Future Foundation of Sacramento Inc

The future foundation of sacramento, inc. provides mentoring and scholarship funding to local financially qualified students in support of their college education.

Education
6
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
7
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

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8
Summit Bank Foundation

To garner funds in support of research at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Research Center. To aid doctors in finding a cure and provide financial assistance for innovation and progressive research. To provide scholarships to…

Philanthropy
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Solano Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy
11
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
12
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California; the most unlike its peers is Derek Fisher Be Better Foundation. 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

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 127 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/88
Grantees still filing
52/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPITAL CHRISTIAN CENTER: $3,743,500 · OtherCAPITAL CHRISTIAN CENTERDESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $2,705,500 · OtherDESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD+81 more: $1,843,729 · Other+81 moreDestiny Community Services: $305,000 · Community ImprovementSACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Heart Association Inc: $144,150 · HealthTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $72,000 · HealthJENNA & PATRICKS FOUNDATION OF HOPE: $25,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR UCP OF GREATER SACRAMENTO: $18,860 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $8,000 · HealthBILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION: $28,200 · PhilanthropyCOOK FOUNDATION: $27,500 · PhilanthropyDRIVING OUT CANCER INC: $27,500 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMikuni Charitable Organization: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHAMMACK FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $14,480 · PhilanthropyTHE MARCUS ALLEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFANS FOR THE CURE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyINVITED FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Philanthropy+5 more: $20,750 · PhilanthropyBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $77,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $30,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF JB: $28,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesTREAT 'EM LIKE A KING: $12,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesST HOPE ACADEMY: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC: $105,000 · ReligionYES YOUNG ENOUGH TO SERVE: $56,500 · Religion+1 more: $3,000 · ReligionANRAK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $61,750 · Youth DevelopmentKyles Family Foundation: $54,736 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY: $10,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $11,250 · Youth Development
Other$8,292,729Community Improvement$335,000Health$278,010Philanthropy$205,930Human Services$185,500Religion$164,500Youth Development$163,436

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDestiny Community Services: $305,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $144,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $140,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetWESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC: $105,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetHAMMOND BLESSED 25TH: $83,750 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $77,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $72,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAlternatives Pregnancy Center: $70,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetANRAK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $61,750 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetYES YOUNG ENOUGH TO SERVE: $56,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP: $55,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetKyles Family Foundation: $54,736 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC: $45,800 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS-CARE: $42,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF JB: $28,500 over 2y, 36% of budgetBILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION: $28,200 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCOOK FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetDRIVING OUT CANCER INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO COUNTY AG FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetSACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPOA 1849 Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetJENNA & PATRICKS FOUNDATION OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPacific Justice Institute: $23,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLADYLIKE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBlue Heart International: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR UCP OF GREATER SACRAMENTO: $18,860 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHAMMACK FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTREAT 'EM LIKE A KING: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOMES FOR FAMILIES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARCUS ALLEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFANS FOR THE CURE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST HOPE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Light School: $8,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINVITED FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH BASKETBALL ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Marvin Buzz Oates Cha…Sacramento Region Com…Sutter Valley Hospita…United Way California…Sierra Health Foundat…Teichert FoundationDignity HealthSafe Credit UnionSetzer FoundationThe California Endowm…Harvego Family Founda…Kelly Foundation
Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable FoundationDE28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · United Way California Capital Region · Sierra Health Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Dignity Health · Safe Credit Union · Setzer Foundation · The California Endowment · Harvego Family Foundation · Kelly Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Oates Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Oates Family 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 127 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home