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Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISCELLANEOUS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST | $119,115 |
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| HER STORY THEATER | $10,000 |
| LIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY | $10,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PARKS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JAZZ INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| THE CREW | $4,000 |
| OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL | $4,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Lake Forest College4× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +50%- LTLIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY4× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +207% · 43% of their budget
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC4× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue ×16
Funded once
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $38k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $33k
- CCCHICAGO CHESS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.
Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ojai Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds Chicago Jazz Philharmonic ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA USA ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORSPACE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Walder Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Oppenheimer Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Habitat for Humanity of Broward Inc — 6% of income from government
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.
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