New York · Private foundation
The Oak Foundation USA
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2022
- 18
- Grants FY2022
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of The Oak Foundation USA’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Oak Foundation USA named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $212,430
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $537,157
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 12
- Total assets, FY2022
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 20% of the organizations The Oak Foundation USA funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 15 | $3.4M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $10M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $30M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climateworks Foundation | $15,333,334 | 2 | 8% |
| Fund for Global Human Rights Inc | $2,759,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $2,666,666 | 2 | 2% |
| World Resources Institute | $1,674,424 | 2 | 0% |
| Book Harvest | $1,600,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Cast Inc | $1,500,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Physicians for Human Rights Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Durham Children's Initiative | $1,500,000 | 3 | 28% |
| The Center for Learner Equity | $1,275,725 | 5 | 42% |
| Project Home | $1,200,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Oak Foundation USA supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Gates Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Oak Foundation USA
- How much does The Oak Foundation USA give?
- The Oak Foundation USA reported 18 grants totaling $4,138,758 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
- What does The Oak Foundation USA fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Oak Foundation USA's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Climateworks Foundation ($15M), Fund for Global Human Rights Inc ($2.8M), Human Rights Watch Inc ($2.7M).
- Does The Oak Foundation USA fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oak Foundation USA accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Oak Foundation USA?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Oak Foundation USA based?
- The Oak Foundation USA is based in NY.
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