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The Oasis Institute

Oasis is a national educational organization designed to empower the lives of older adults, and includes a national network of oasis programs in more than 250 communities through seven education centers and a national network of over 800 partners in 47 states.

$52k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$1.1MHealth$111k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$52,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OASIS - SAN ANTONIO$52,000
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 (FY17–20, $459k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $27k → 15%OASIS - SAN DIEGO: $113k → 11%SENIOR CONNECTIONS: $30k → 22%ELDER SERVE INC: $14k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 15%OASIS - SAN DIEGO: $112k → 11%SENIOR CONNECTIONS: $15k → 22%OASIS - SAN DIEGO: $72k → 11%OASIS - SAN DIEGO: $52k → 11%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

NY
IN
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 10 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO OASIS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $349k · revenue +182%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO OASIS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $271k · revenue +23%
  • AO
    ALBUQUERQUE OASIS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $215k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • PR
    PACIFIC REGION OASIS
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • EI
    ELDERSERVE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -72%
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
Rochester Oasis

To promote successful aging for adults age 50 and older through lifelong learning, health programs and volunteer engagement. our vision is that adults age 50 plus have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful…

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2
Orcutt Area Seniors in Service Inc

Oasis is a local volunteer-driven, membership oriented organization founded by local seniors to serve other seniors in northern santa barbara county. oasis has become a refuge and a relief, indeed, a sweet blessing for thousands of local…

Human Services
3
Area Agency On Aging Region 9 Inc

The organization's mission is to work with people, communities, and organizations to educate, prepare, and assist them in meeting the needs of the aging.the organization's vision is to be the recognized community leader in providing…

Human Services
4
Area Agency On Aging Planning and Service Area 2

The area agency on aging, planning and service area 2 improves the quality of life for the older adults in its nine-county community by advocating for individuals, developing and supporting a strong network of services, and providing…

Human Services
5
Psa 3 Agency On Aging

To promote the highest quality of life, area agency on aging 3 will provide access to a network of services, education, and advocacy as the region's aging and disability resource expert.

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6
Cicoa Aging & in-Home Solutions Inc

Cicoa empowers older adults, those of any age with a disability, and their caregivers by providing the innovative answers, services, and support they need to achieve the greatest possible independence, dignity, and quality of life.

Human Services
7
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…

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8
Area 1 Agency On Aging

Area 1 agency on aging provides leadership and services that support and promote healthy aging.

Human Services
9
Agency On Aging of South Central Connecticut

The organization's mission is to champion and serve older adults and individuals with disabilities so that they remain independent and engaged within their communities.

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10
Alternatives for the Older Adult Inc

Alternatives promotes the independence and quality of life for older adults, adults with disabilities, and their families.

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11
Augustana Care

To foster fullness of life for older adults in the spirit of christ's love.

Unclassified
12
Region Iv Area Agency On Aging Inc (With Foster Grandparents Program)

The mission of the organization is to provide comprehensive, coordinated systems of services to assist older persons to maintain independence in their homes and their communities as long as possible.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Oasis; the most unlike its peers is Suburban Hospital 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO OASIS: $271,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO OASISALBUQUERQUE OASIS: $215,300 · OtherALBUQUERQUE OASISOASIS - LOS ANGELES: $86,706 · OtherOASIS - LOS ANGELESINDIANAPOLIS OASIS: $51,922 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS OASISPACIFIC REGION OASIS: $25,766 · Other+1 more: $12,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO OASIS: $349,106 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OASISPima Council on Aging: $51,221 · Human ServicesPima Council on AgingTHE CAPITAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $44,781 · Human ServicesTHE CAPITAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING+1 more: $14,166 · Human ServicesSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $100,761 · HealthSUBURBAN H…GENESEE REGION HOME CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthGENESEE RE…
Other$662,694Human Services$459,274Health$110,761

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 budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS: $349,106 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO OASIS: $271,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetALBUQUERQUE OASIS: $215,300 over 4y, 10% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $100,761 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS OASIS: $51,922 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $51,221 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAPITAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $44,781 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC REGION OASIS: $25,766 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetELDERSERVE INC: $14,166 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENESEE REGION HOME CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 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.

AARPDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AARPDC12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AARP · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Suburban Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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