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Oxford Civic Association

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$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$129kHuman Services$115kHousing & Shelter$17kYouth Development$7kEducation$6kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$4kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $35,248, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,560 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,312 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$17,624
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES$17,624
OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$17,624
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $5k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $5k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $2k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $18k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $18k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $17k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $13k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $10k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $9k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $8k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $5k → 6%OXFORD SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 6%OXFORD SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 6%OXFORD SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 6%OXFORD SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 6%SILO: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 16 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$304k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+114%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OA
    OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +58%
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBORS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +222%
  • OS
    OXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • OM
    OXFORD MAINSTREET INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +84%
  • SW
    SILO WORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +114%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Oxford Area Historical Association

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Oxford Area Foundation
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3
Oxford Civic Association

Support local nonprofit organizations

Community Improvement
4
Oxford Fire Company Inc

To provide volunteer fire rescue and emergency medical services to the local area and mutual aid to the outlying areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Oxford Ambulance Association Inc

To provide ambulance service between the town and medical facilities convenient to the town of oxford.

—
6
Oxford Senior Citizens Inc

To provide physcial, spiritual, social, educational, vocational and intellectual programs for adults aged 50 years and older.

Human Services
7
Oxford Library Company

Provide welcoming spaces for community interaction, access to information and lifelong learning

—
8
Oxford House Inc

Implement programs: establish & continue selfsupport recovery homes

—
9
Oxford Community Center Inc

To provide a welcoming place where area residents and visitors of all ages can participate in programs and activities that enrich community life.

Arts & Culture
10
Oaks Ministries Inc

To empower the students of downtown augusta to become christ-centered leaders who transform their communities with the hope of the gospel.

Religion
11
Oxford University School

Providing educational services to children in grades pre-k through 7th grade

—
12
Oxford Orphanage-Masonic Home for C

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oxford Area Neighborhood Services Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $127,358 · ReligionLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC+1 more: $2,000 · ReligionOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $96,955 · Human ServicesOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INCGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $16,250 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INCOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual gran…Individual grant recipient: $7,400 · OtherIndividual gran…OXFORD AREA JUNIOR FOOTBALL: $5,250 · OtherOXFORD AREA JUN…OXFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,500 · OtherOXFORD PUBLIC L…OXFORD AREA YOUTH CABIN: $4,000 · OtherOXFORD AREA YOU…FAMILY PROMISE: $3,750 · OtherFAMILY PROMISEIndividual grant recipient: $2,750 · OtherIndividual gran…YOUNG LIFE OF OXFORD: $2,500 · OtherYOUNG LIFE OF O…Oxford Arts Alliance Inc: $3,750 · Arts & CultureOXFORD MAINSTREET INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOxford Educational Foundation: $1,900 · EducationTHE OAKS MINISTRY: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Religion$129,358Human Services$128,205Other$41,150Arts & Culture$4,750Education$1,900Housing & Shelter$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $127,358 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $96,955 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $16,250 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $14,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOxford Arts Alliance Inc: $3,750 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOnesimus Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOxford Educational Foundation: $1,900 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOXFORD MAINSTREET INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSILO WORKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OAKS MINISTRY: $1,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Oxford Area Found…Chester County Commun…The Dansko Foundation…United Way of Souther…James S Herr Family F…Cabot-Kjellerup Found…Chester County Food B…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oxford Area FoundationPA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oxford Civic Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oxford Civic Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Oxford Civic Association?

    Find your warmest path to Oxford Civic Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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