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The Okun Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$151k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 15
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
12
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations The Okun Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$151k25%
FY202212$13k0%
FY202112$14k0%
FY202012$14k8%
FY201914$12k0%
FY201715$19kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$115kRecreation & Sports$19kHuman Services$15kEducation$13kInternational$11kAnimals$8kHealth$8kReligion$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
WV
MD
AZ
DC
HI
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Okun Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $30,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEarthtrust: $17,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetEarthjustice: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLloyd Center for the Environment Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $12,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Crest Trail Association: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreenpeace Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJamyang Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Okun Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Okun Family Foundation Inc give?
The Okun Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $151,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Okun Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (52%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Human Services (7%).
Who are The Okun Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Biological Diversity Inc ($31k), Earthtrust ($18k), Earthjustice ($18k).
Does The Okun Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Okun Family Foundation Inc 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 Okun Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Okun Family Foundation Inc based?
The Okun Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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