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The Oakfield Foundation at a glance

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The Oakfield 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.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$269kHousing & Shelter$247kFood & Nutrition$165kInternational$125kCrime & Legal$107kHuman Services$82kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Hope for Fertility Foundation$50,000
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation$50,000
Equal Justice Initiative$40,000
World Central Kitchen$25,000
Pine Street Inn$20,000
Horizons for Homeless Children$19,700
Greater Boston Food Bank$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Pine Street Inn: $40k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $20k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $20k → 16%Charity Water: $25k → 17%Pine Street Inn: $20k → 16%Charity Water: $20k → 17%Pine Street Inn: $12k → 16%Charity Water: $15k → 17%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%Charity Water: $12k → 17%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $20k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $19k → 16%Horizons For Homeless Children: $18k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $15k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $15k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $9k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $5k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $5k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $5k → 16%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

MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
UT
AZ
DC
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 15 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+67%

Still filing today

93%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • PINE STREET INN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +123%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +8%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BA
    BEACON ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +67%
  • MG
    Mass General Hospital
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
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
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
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
4
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
5
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
6
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
7
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
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
11
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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12
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PINE STREET INN INC: $137,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INCHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $110,030 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDRENCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INCNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $130,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RES…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK …Mass General Hospital: $18,000 · OtherMass General HospitalIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherMake-A-Wish America: $10,000 · OtherYouth Guidance - BAM Boston: $10,000 · OtherBEACON ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · OtherBEACON ACADEMY INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOS…Appalachian Mountain Club: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherSave The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 · InternationalSave The Children …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $65,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITC…The American Himalayan Foundation: $30,000 · InternationalThe American Himal…International Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 · InternationalInternational Resc…INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $130,000 · Food & NutritionINTERNATIONA…THE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthTHE HOPE FO…Baby Quest Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthBaby Quest …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $82,000 · Civil RightsTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $11,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$319,030Other$258,500International$190,000Food & Nutrition$130,000Health$120,000Civil Rights$82,000Community Improvement$36,000

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 budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $137,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $110,030 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $82,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $72,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaby Quest Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 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.

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.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 24 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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