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The Green Oak Foundation at a glance

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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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$188kEnvironment$56kYouth Development$54kHealth$53kHuman Services$41kFood & Nutrition$26kInternational$20kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT PLAINS FOUNDATION$20,000
FUTURE COMMUNITIES INC$20,000
CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS$10,000
ST MONICA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY$10,000
TCC FAMILY HEALTH$10,000
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$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
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION$500
THE GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER$500
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SENIOR CONCERNS: $500 → 10%ANGELS OF LIGHT: $1k → 9%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $7k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $4k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER: $3k → 14%THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $150 → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of The Green Oak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 60%.

The Green Oak Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 36% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$380k · 15 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
31

Total granted

$380k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+40%

Still filing today

47%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHealthOther
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

  • F
    FOODCYCLE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +303%
  • TP
    THE PEOPLE CONCERN
    4× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +72%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • PP
    PROJECT PRAKASH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • MO
    MONASTERY OF THE ANGELS
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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.

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Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
3
Los Angeles Medical Center Foundation
Health
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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6
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
8
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
9
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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10
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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11
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
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12
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW CAMALDOLI HERMITAGE: $105,000 · OtherNEW CAMALDOLI HERMITAGECATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS: $54,100 · OtherCATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERSBLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH: $45,500 · OtherBLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCHST MONICAS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherST MONICAS CATHOLIC CHURCHFUTURE COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 · OtherFUTURE COMMUNITIES INCTHE GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER: $17,573 · OtherPROJECT PRAKASH: $15,000 · Other+27 more: $67,947 · Other+27 moreGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · AnimalsGREAT PLAI…GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · AnimalsGREATER LO…+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $14,353 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $1,650 · Human ServicesFOODCYCLE: $26,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK: $15,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $13,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $13,292 · Recreation & SportsTeam Heal Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$350,120Animals$45,000Human Services$38,503Food & Nutrition$26,000Environment$16,000Health$15,500Recreation & Sports$14,792

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOODCYCLE: $26,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $14,353 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $13,292 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $2,614 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS OF LIGHT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Heal Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $75 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.

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.

California Community …The Sikand FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…Sempra FoundationThe J Paul Getty TrustWeingart FoundationCedars-Sinai Medical …Liberty Hill Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA20.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Green Oak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Green Oak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Green Oak Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Green Oak 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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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