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The Green Oak 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUTURE COMMUNITIES INC | $20,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST MONICA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| TCC FAMILY HEALTH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $1,114 |
| THE MCCOURT FOUNDATION | $532 |
| THE GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER | $500 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of The Green Oak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- FFOODCYCLE3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +303%
- TPTHE PEOPLE CONCERN4× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +72%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ECEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +2%
- PPPROJECT PRAKASHone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MOMONASTERY OF THE ANGELSone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River and the most unlike its peers is Corita Art Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 51 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 GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODCYCLE ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CORITA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Team Heal Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Sikand Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Weingart Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Green Oak Foundation 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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