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Oppenheim Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$381k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
11
Organizations funded FY2022
27%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 27
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 27% of the organizations Oppenheim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22
Human 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202211$365k27%
FY20219$40k33%
FY201923$52k22%
FY201824$62k8%
FY201727$74kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$137kEducation$116kArts & Culture$66kHousing & Shelter$65kYouth Development$55kPhilanthropy$46kInternational$17kReligion$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Oppenheim Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Keystone College$74,12540%
Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art$57,00056%
Outreach - Center for Community Resources$31,00021%
United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties$20,02520%
Friends of the Poor$15,00011%
Wrc Inc$15,00010%
United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania$6,8003n/a
Congregation Emanuel$6,1003n/a
University of Scranton$3,50030%
Lackawanna Pro Bono Inc$3,15031%
St Francis of Assisi$3,0003n/a
Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab$3,00030%
Marywood University$3,00030%
Voluntary Action Center$2,50030%
The Macula Foundation Inc$1,50030%
Lackawanna Historical Society$1,00011%
Center for Community Resources Inc$1,00010%
The Fortune Society Inc$1,00020%
Scranton Preparatory School$1001n/a

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($345k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oppenheim Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKeystone College: $74,125 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEverhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art: $57,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetOutreach - Center for Community Resources: $31,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties: $20,025 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Poor: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWrc Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLackawanna Pro Bono Inc: $3,150 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarywood University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVoluntary Action Center: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Macula Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLackawanna Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Community Resources Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Walter L Schautz FoundationPA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walter L Schautz Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Eureka Foundation · The Ross Family Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Allone Charities · William G McGowan Charitable Fund

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.

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About Oppenheim Foundation

How much does Oppenheim Foundation give?
Oppenheim Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $381,024 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Oppenheim Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Oppenheim Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Keystone College ($74k), Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art ($57k), Outreach - Center for Community Resources ($31k).
Does Oppenheim Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Oppenheim Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oppenheim Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walter L Schautz Foundation, The Hawk Family Foundation, Moses Taylor Foundation Inc.
Where is Oppenheim Foundation based?
Oppenheim Foundation is based in MD.

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 41 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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