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Omega Foundation Inc

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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Education$185kArts & Culture$103kHealth$83kYouth Development$40kPhilanthropy$28kInternational$13kReligion$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STERNE SCHOOL$20,000
THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION$20,000
THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL&CULTURAL CENTER$5,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROOFTOP ELEMENTARY PTA: $30k → 10%TEMPLE BRITH KODESH: $2k → 14%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $8k → 17%USA FOR UNHCR: $3k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%ROOFTOP ELEMENTARY PTA: $25k → 10%UNICEF USA: $3k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $8k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $8k → 8%ROOFTOP ELEMENTARY PTA: $25k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER: $5k → 8%THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $3k → 8%THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $3k → 8%THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 10%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $2k → 17%THE WRITER'S CENTER: $15k → 8%THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL&CULTURAL CENTER: $5k → 10%THE WRITER'S CENTER: $5k → 8%THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL&CULTURAL CENTER: $5k → 10%THE WRITER'S HOUSE: $5k → 8%THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 10%URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%CIRCUS CENTER: $5k → 10%CIRCUS CENTER: $5k → 10%CIRCUS CENTER: $3k → 10%THE BAY SCHOOL: $25k → 10%BAY SCHOOL: $25k → 10%CHILDREN'S AFTER SCHOOL ARTS (CASA): $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S AFTER SCHOOL ARTS: $10k → 10%CHILDRENS AFTER SCHOOL ARTS: $5k → 10%CHILDREN'S AFTER SCHOOL ARTS: $3k → 10%ROOFTOP PTA: $15k → 10%DREW SCHOOL: $40k → 10%THE STERNE SCHOOL: $20k → 10%COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $3k → 10%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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$331k · 12 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$331k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • RE
    Rooftop Elementary PTA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +7%
  • TB
    THE BAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • US
    URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • DS
    DREW SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TW
    THE WRITER'S HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
3
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
4
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
5
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
7
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
8
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
9
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
10
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
11
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

—
12
The Mirman School for Gifted Children

We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Round House Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rooftop Elementary PTA: $80,000 · OtherRooftop Elementary PTADREW SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherDREW SCHOOLTHE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTHE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOLThe Writers Center: $20,000 · OtherThe Writers CenterPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $17,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL&CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $17,000 · Other+5 moreTHE BAY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE BAY SCHOOLURBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 · EducationURBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISC…STERNE SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationSTERNE SCHOOLChildren's After School Arts: $27,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's After S…THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PIATIGORSKY FO…CIRCUS CENTER: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS CENTERCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CE…ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · HealthUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,500 · International
Other$224,500Education$120,000Arts & Culture$75,000Philanthropy$22,500Health$15,000International$13,000

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 budgetRooftop Elementary PTA: $80,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREW SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's After School Arts: $27,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetThe Writers Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTERNE SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUS CENTER: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,500 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.

Jewish Community Fede…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Omega Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Omega Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Writers Center: 6% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Omega Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Omega Foundation Inc 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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