· Private foundation
Sandra and Gilbert Oken Foundation
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY | $5,000 |
| STUDIO THEATRE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ALL CRITTERS AT SHELTERS INC | $2,500 |
| HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 17% of Sandra and Gilbert Oken Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +24% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +42%
- JSJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +38%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- BCBRANDEIS COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $5k
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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.
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
To advise, support and oversee the continued artistic quality of the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts' national symphony orchestra program.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALL CRITTERS AT SHELTERS INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sandra and Gilbert Oken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandra and Gilbert Oken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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