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Oxford Civic Association
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $35,248 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,560 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,312 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES | $17,624 |
| OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES | $17,624 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +6%
- OAOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +58%
- GNGOOD NEIGHBORS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- OMOXFORD MAINSTREET INCgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +84%
- SWSILO WORKSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +114%
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.
The mission of the Oxford Area Historical Association is to preserve and promote the historical significance of the Oxford area, educate the community on historical interests, and to encourage the economic vitality of the Oxford Area…
Support local nonprofit organizations
To provide volunteer fire rescue and emergency medical services to the local area and mutual aid to the outlying areas.
To provide ambulance service between the town and medical facilities convenient to the town of oxford.
To provide physcial, spiritual, social, educational, vocational and intellectual programs for adults aged 50 years and older.
Provide welcoming spaces for community interaction, access to information and lifelong learning
Implement programs: establish & continue selfsupport recovery homes
To provide a welcoming place where area residents and visitors of all ages can participate in programs and activities that enrich community life.
To empower the students of downtown augusta to become christ-centered leaders who transform their communities with the hope of the gospel.
Providing educational services to children in grades pre-k through 7th grade
The purpose of the association is to promote the interests oxford orphanage/masonic home for children at oxford and the welfare of its residents and to perpetuate the history of the home by: 1. active cooperation 2. maintaining a spirit of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oxford Area Neighborhood Services Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Youth Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Oxford Arts Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Onesimus Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Oxford Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds OXFORD MAINSTREET INC ↗
- Who funds SILO WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE OAKS MINISTRY ↗
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 Oxford Area Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Chester County · James S Herr Family Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · Chester County Food Bank · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Oxford Civic Association 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.
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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