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The Oaklawn Foundationinc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$66k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.5MYouth Development$396kEnvironment$382kHuman Services$267kRecreation & Sports$224kHealth$219kArts & Culture$214kFood & Nutrition$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $914k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $166k
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HILL SCHOOL$65,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$50,000
COLBY COLLEGE$50,000
KIDS IN CRISIS$45,000
MOUNT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY & CHILDREN'S HOME$45,000
UNC WILMINGTON$40,000
SCSU FOUNDATION INC$40,000
STAMFORD MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER$37,750
CHOATE-ROSEMARY HALL$35,000
WATERSIDE SCHOOL$35,000
SOUNDWATERS$35,000
DOMUS KIDS INC$35,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$32,500
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$32,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB GREENWICH$31,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FILING IN THE BLANKS: $1k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $1k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $1k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%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

ME
VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
PA
CT
KY
VA
NC
DC
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 59 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
5

Total granted

$5.6M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+21%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +17%
  • KI
    KIDS IN CRISIS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +67%
  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $246k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • MI
    MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -4%
  • WL
    WILTON LITTLE LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MP
    MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +21%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
6
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
7
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
South Kent School Corporation

South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…

Education
11
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
12
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stamford Little League. 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 73 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
45/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HILL SCHOOL: $359,500 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $246,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby Colleg…WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $194,500 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $182,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORAT…UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $175,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INCST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGESUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $140,000 · EducationSUMMER ON THE HILL INCUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTUR…GREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $120,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INCBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $112,500 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $75,000 · Education+6 more: $61,000 · EducationSCSU FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · OtherSCSU FOUNDATION INCMOUNT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY & CHILDREN'S HOME: $270,000 · OtherMOUNT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY & CHILDREN'S HOMEKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $265,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCUNC WILMINGTON: $250,000 · OtherUNC WILMINGTONDOMUS KIDS INC: $185,000 · OtherDOMUS KIDS INCINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $180,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCGREENWICH FAMILY CENTERS: $174,000 · OtherGREENWICH FAMILY CENTERSLAUREL HOUSE INC: $130,000 · OtherNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $100,000 · OtherMORNING STAR CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $120,000 · Other+25 more: $472,500 · Other+25 moreSOUNDWATERS INC: $229,000 · EnvironmentWOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC: $87,000 · EnvironmentSTARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC: $45,500 · EnvironmentFriends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc: $43,000 · Environment+4 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $197,250 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $16,250 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $180,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE WORKPLACE INC: $145,000 · EmploymentBETSYS PARK: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $57,000 · Recreation & SportsMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $18,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$2,200,500Other$2,521,500Environment$424,500Arts & Culture$213,500Youth Development$180,500Employment$145,000Recreation & Sports$135,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $359,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $265,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $246,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $229,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $197,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $194,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC: $185,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $182,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $180,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORKPLACE INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $140,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $112,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC: $87,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBETSYS PARK: $60,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC: $45,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetFriends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABILIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $4,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL INC: $3,500 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.

  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE WORKPLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER ON THE HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BETSYS PARK ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Viking Global Foundat…Malkin Fund IncThe Scripps Family Fu…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Ibm International Fou…Peoples United Commun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Resource Foundati…Stamford Rotary Trust…The Near and Far Asso…New Canaan Community …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT40.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Workplace Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Laurel House Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
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How do I get to The Oaklawn Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to The Oaklawn Foundationinc 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 73 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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