· Private foundation
Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISCELLANEOUS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST | $56,500 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $11,100 |
| CAPOEIRA EL PASO | $10,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $6,000 |
| HYDE PARK JAZZ FESTIVAL | $5,800 |
| JAZZ INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE CREW | $4,000 |
| OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL | $4,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| OJAI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OJAI VALLEY TENNIS CLUB | $1,500 |
| CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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 MUSIC5× · 2020–2025 · $56k · 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%
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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…
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.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
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.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Hyde Park Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Jazz Philharmonic ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA USA ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds Concerned Resource & Environmental Workers ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORSPACE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oppenheimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oppenheimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Habitat for Humanity of Broward Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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