· Private foundation
Oumu Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CAL FUND UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $2,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| DEL MAR SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO | $1,600 |
| SAN DIEGO FRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL | $800 |
| URBANA PARKS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF SAN FRANCISCO | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
| INST FOR FOOD DEVELOPMENT POLICY | $500 |
| URBANA FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER | $300 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $300 |
| NOVA UKRAINE | $250 |
| RIDGES SANCTUARY | $250 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Oumu Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 43%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Rocky Mountain Institute5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +52%- DDONORSCHOOSEORG5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +1%
- AIADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC5× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +8%
- YAYOUNG AT ARTone grant, 2018 · $1k
- DPDEEPWATER PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
To support the scientific and educational purposes of the regents of the university of california (the "university"), in its specific capacity as manager and operator of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and to carry on other…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds URBANA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds URBANA FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELEK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds CALLERLAB INC ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oumu Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oumu Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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