California · Private foundation
Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $641k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Oppenheimer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $130k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $301k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $263k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $372k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $292k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $906k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Forest College | $700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Live the Spirit Residency | $105,000 | 4 | 43% |
| Merit School of Music | $56,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago | $40,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Colel Chabad | $36,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hyde Park Jazz Festival | $35,800 | 5 | 3% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy | $31,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Chicago Jazz Philharmonic | $30,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Chicago Chess Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 21% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($872k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oppenheimer Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Oppenheimer Family Foundation
- How much does Oppenheimer Family Foundation give?
- Oppenheimer Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $130,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Oppenheimer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (18%), Religion (3%).
- Who are Oppenheimer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lake Forest College ($700k), Live the Spirit Residency ($105k), Merit School of Music ($56k).
- Does Oppenheimer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oppenheimer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oppenheimer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Richard H Driehaus Foundation.
- Where is Oppenheimer Family Foundation based?
- Oppenheimer Family Foundation is based in CA.
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