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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $522,354, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,316,728 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,794,374 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (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 its 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
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

WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
NE
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Occidental College’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Occidental Collegelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
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

  • HH
    Harambee House Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $456k · revenue ×13 · 25% of their budget
  • TE
    TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $357k · revenue +28%
  • SS
    SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $321k · revenue +127%

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
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
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
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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4
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
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
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
8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
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
10
Capital University

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

Education
11
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTallahassee Food Network: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMOBILE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACTION COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNew Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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.

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 60 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 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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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