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Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex, interdependent and pluralistic world.

$55M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$189k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$2.1MHealth$445kCommunity Improvement$376kScience & Tech$354kEducation$170kFood & Nutrition$125kHuman Services$122kEmployment$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $522,354 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $55,316,728 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,794,374 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $432k
$62,580
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROSPERITY COLLECTIVE$189,140
THE FARMER KEN LLC$114,651
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$65,443
SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE$62,580
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES (FOOD ACCESS LA)$34,434
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$25,352
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$23,554
STRATEGIC EARTH CONSULTING$7,200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $167k → 16%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $167k → 16%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $93k → 16%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $29k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
NE
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Occidental College’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.

Occidental Collegelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 14 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
40

Total granted

$2.8M
$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

86%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • HH
    Harambee House Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $456k · revenue ×13 · 25% of their budget
  • EY
    EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $415k · revenue +25%
  • TE
    TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $357k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ER
    ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue -95% · 38% of their budget
  • LS
    LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $38k
  • UO
    UNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
    one grant, 2019 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
11
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
12
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Community College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,505

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 60 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $415,000 · OtherEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUS…CLEANAIRNOW ASSOCIATION — $192,000 · OtherCLEANAIRNOW ASSOCIATIONPROSPERITY COLLECTIVE — $189,140 · OtherPROSPERITY COLLECTIVEIronbound Community Corporation — $150,000 · OtherIronbound Community CorporationTHE FARMER KEN LLC — $114,651 · OtherTHE FARMER KEN LLCECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE — $80,000 · OtherECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE+27 more — $315,607 · Other+27 moreCLEAN WATER FUND — $584,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY — $357,000 · EnvironmentTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE A…+3 more — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $124,197 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES O…Wellesley College — $97,695 · EducationWellesley Coll…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $88,142 · EducationThe Research F…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $53,305 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …The George Washington University — $52,756 · EducationThe George Was…+10 more — $70,778 · Education+10 moreHarambee House Inc — $456,160 · Human ServicesHarambee Hous…SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC — $321,008 · HealthSILENT SP…SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES — $41,934 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,352 · Community ImprovementCitizens for a Sustainable Future — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWest Long Beach Association — $10,000 · Community ImprovementESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $14,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,456,398Environment$971,000Education$486,873Human Services$456,160Health$321,008Community Improvement$87,286Housing & Shelter$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $584,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHarambee House Inc — $456,160 over 4y, 25% of budgetEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $415,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY — $357,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC — $321,008 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCLEANAIRNOW ASSOCIATION — $192,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation — $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $124,197 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $97,695 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $88,142 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE — $80,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $53,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $52,756 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES — $41,934 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,352 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $15,258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $10,478 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTallahassee Food Network — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMOBILE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACTION COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $8,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College — $8,461 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $5,257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $5,201 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $5,172 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC — $5,012 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Social and Environmen…Solutions Project IncNatural Resources Def…Windward FundUnited States Energy …Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincMovement Strategy Cen…Tides FoundationWest Harlem Environme…The Partnership Proje…Sierra Club
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) IncCA29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Movement Strategy Center · Tides Foundation · West Harlem Environmental Action Inc · The Partnership Project Inc · Sierra Club

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 Occidental College 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Pacific University — 2% of income from government
  • University of Portland — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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