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Oberlin College
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives essential to confront complex issues and to create change and value in the world.…
- $111M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $256k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Oberlin College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 10 | $256k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $177k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $225k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $385k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $171k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $123k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $153k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $89k | 75% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Oberlin | $577,830 | 8 | n/a |
| Oberlin Early Childhood Center | $347,679 | 9 | 9% |
| Oberlin Community Services Council | $113,371 | 4 | 6% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $89,988 | 4 | 0% |
| Shagbark Haven LLC | $89,093 | 4 | n/a |
| Oberlin Unitarian Universalist Fell | $63,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Fresh | $61,500 | 3 | 9% |
| Providing Oberlin With Efficiency Responsibly | $57,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Forest City Food Collective | $37,181 | 3 | 15% |
| Natural Areas Land Conservancy | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Oberlin | $577,830 | 8 | n/a |
| Oberlin Early Childhood Center | $347,679 | 9 | 9% |
| Oberlin Community Services Council | $113,371 | 4 | 6% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $89,988 | 4 | 0% |
| Shagbark Haven LLC | $89,093 | 4 | n/a |
| Oberlin Unitarian Universalist Fell | $63,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Fresh | $61,500 | 3 | 9% |
| Providing Oberlin With Efficiency Responsibly | $57,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Forest City Food Collective | $37,181 | 3 | 15% |
| Natural Areas Land Conservancy | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Our Family Fathers and Mothers Involved in Local Youth | $20,117 | 3 | 11% |
| Oberlin Underground Railroad Society | $20,111 | 2 | n/a |
| Oberlin Board of Education | $19,524 | 2 | n/a |
| Sunbolt | $16,215 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustainable Community Associates Ltd | $15,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Rewild | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hispanic Ministries of Tuscarawas County Inc | $10,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Village Family Farms Foundation | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| New Image Life Skills Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kendal at Oberlin | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization | $7,096 | 1 | 1% |
| AVI Contribution (Latest Products Corp) | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shannon Ford Rudek | $6,224 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Oberlin College supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Oberlin College
- How much does Oberlin College give?
- Oberlin College reported 10 itemized grants totaling $256,066, out of $111,342,784 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oberlin College fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Human Services (22%), Public Safety & Disaster (20%).
- Who are Oberlin College's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Oberlin ($578k), Oberlin Early Childhood Center ($348k), Oberlin Community Services Council ($113k).
- Does Oberlin College fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oberlin College?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Lorain County, The Nord Family Foundation, The Nordson Corporation Foundation.
- Where is Oberlin College based?
- Oberlin College is based in OH.
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