Connecticut · Private foundation
The Oaklawn Foundationinc
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 56
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Oaklawn Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $1.0M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $920k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $915k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $945k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $795k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hill School | $359,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Kids in Crisis Inc | $265,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $246,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Soundwaters Inc | $229,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc | $197,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Waterside School Inc | $194,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Domus Kids Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $182,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich | $180,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Oaklawn Foundationinc supplied at peak.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Oaklawn Foundationinc
- How much does The Oaklawn Foundationinc give?
- The Oaklawn Foundationinc reported 60 grants totaling $1,121,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Oaklawn Foundationinc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Youth Development (7%), Environment (7%).
- Who are The Oaklawn Foundationinc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Hill School ($360k), Kids in Crisis Inc ($265k), The President and Trustees of Colby College ($246k).
- Does The Oaklawn Foundationinc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oaklawn Foundationinc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Oaklawn Foundationinc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Viking Global Foundation Inc, Malkin Fund Inc.
- Where is The Oaklawn Foundationinc based?
- The Oaklawn Foundationinc is based in CT.
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