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Reed Jules Oppenheimer Foundation at a glance

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Reed Jules Oppenheimer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
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.

Animals$1.5MEnvironment$899kEducation$283kCommunity Improvement$211kInternational$146kHuman Services$71kCrime & Legal$54kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
NEW COMUNITY PROJECT$35,000
SYNERGOS INSTITUTE$31,750
OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER$25,000
STREET SCHOOL$15,000
HEALTH IN HARMONY$15,000
MAINSPRINGS JBFC FOUNDATION$5,000
TO BE HONEST DBA THE TEL AVIV INSTI$5,000
HONEYBEE SCHOOLHOUSE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SEACOLOGY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENVIRONM$3,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION$2,500
YES EMPOWERMENT SERVICES$1,460
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 (FY18–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFRICA WOMEN RISING: $40k → 14%ABEREATIONS: $250 → 14%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $1k → 14%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $2k → 15%RED DIRT RELIEF FUND: $200 → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $1k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 44 repeat orgs$664k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
62

Total granted

$3.1M
$562k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+34%

Still filing today

59%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
  • VF
    VALLEY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $252k · revenue ×71 · 97% of their budget
  • NC
    New Community Project
    6× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +251%

Funded once

  • TB
    TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IS
    Ian Somerhalder Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
3
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
11
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
12
NatureServe

NatureServe's mission is to leverage the power of science, data, and technology to guide biodiversity conservation and stewardship. We activate our mission by working with a network of 60+ partners located in states and provinces across…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Kitten Rescue 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

63 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. 63 of the 121 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $1,407,500 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARC…+8 more: $40,956 · AnimalsIndividual grant recipient: $258,530 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAINSPRINGS JBFC FOUNDATION: $159,781 · OtherMAINSPRINGS JBFC FOUNDATIONYALE UNIVERSITY: $62,000 · OtherCULVER MILITARY ACADEMY: $52,100 · OtherTULSA BOTANIC GARDEN: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIan Somerhalder Foundation: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF REGENERATION: $50,000 · OtherCULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $50,000 · Other+81 more: $517,962 · Other+81 moreTREES FOR LIFE INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOR…Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentOklahoma …+5 more: $4,280 · EnvironmentVALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $251,511 · Recreation & SportsNew Community Project: $165,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC: $34,560 · InternationalTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $31,750 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,530 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,160 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $3,584 · International+3 more: $4,000 · InternationalSTREET SCHOOL INC: $80,500 · Education
Animals$1,448,456Other$1,400,373Environment$304,280Recreation & Sports$251,511Community Improvement$166,000International$93,584Education$80,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $1,407,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTREES FOR LIFE INC: $275,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetVALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $251,511 over 6y, 97% of budgetNew Community Project: $165,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetSTREET SCHOOL INC: $80,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIan Somerhalder Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC: $34,560 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC: $32,030 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $31,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWILD OCEANS INC: $31,450 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetOklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget12 & 12 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $9,946 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE KITTEN RESCUE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSurfcat Cafe and Adoption Center: $7,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,160 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKITT CRUSADERS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $5,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCats of San Bernardino: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEACOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $3,584 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $3,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,010 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA GROWING CULTURE: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUP WITH TREES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANG UTAN REPUBLIK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds TREES FOR LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New Community Project ↗
  • Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
  • Who funds Ian Somerhalder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
  • Who funds JBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC ↗
  • Who funds NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC ↗
  • Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD OCEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc ↗
  • Who funds 12 & 12 INC ↗
  • Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
  • Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE LOWELL WHITEMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE KITTEN RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee 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.

George Kaiser Family …Tulsa Community Found…Ralph and Frances McG…The Gelvin FoundationOne Gas Foundation IncArvest FoundationMervin Bovaird Founda…Zarrow Families Found…The Hardesty Family F…The Anne and Henry Za…Sanford P & Irene F B…Tulsa Area United Way
George Kaiser Family FoundationOK23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Gelvin Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Tulsa Area United Way

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 Reed Jules Oppenheimer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reed Jules Oppenheimer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Reed Jules Oppenheimer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Reed Jules Oppenheimer Foundation 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 121 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-PF 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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