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The Okun Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% 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
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$8,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$20,000
EARTH JUSTICE$12,000
EARTH TRUST$11,000
LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT$8,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
EARTH ISLAND$8,000
GREEN PEACE$8,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$8,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$8,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$8,000
PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSN$8,000
LINUS PAULINGOREGON ST UNIV$4,800
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $8k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $12k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 11%PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSN: $8k → 12%EARTH TRUST: $11k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER: $8k → 16%GREEN PEACE: $8k → 14%CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL ALLN: $5k → 7%SEA SHEPARD: $8k → 10%APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONFERENCE: $5k → 9%LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $2k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $2k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 11%PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSN: $1k → 12%EARTH TRUST: $2k → 9%CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL ALLN: $600 → 7%SEA SHEPARD: $1k → 10%APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONFERENCE: $600 → 9%LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $2k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 11%PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSN: $1k → 12%EARTH TRUST: $2k → 9%SEA SHEPARD: $1k → 10%LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $1k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 11%PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSN: $1k → 12%EARTH TRUST: $2k → 9%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $8k → 14%SEA SHEPARD: $1k → 10%LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $1k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 11%EARTH TRUST: $1k → 9%SEA SHEPARD: $1k → 10%LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $1k → 11%EARTH JUSTICE: $1k → 10%EARTH TRUST: $1k → 9%SEA SHEPARD: $1k → 10%EARTH ISLAND: $8k → 10%EARTH ISLAND: $1k → 10%EARTH ISLAND: $1k → 10%EARTH ISLAND: $1k → 10%EARTH ISLAND: $1k → 10%EARTH ISLAND: $1k → 10%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

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$193k · 16 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$193k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+35%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’24
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +127%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +82%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +48%
  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlifegraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +35%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
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
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
4
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
5
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
6
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
7
The 5 Gyres Institute

The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…

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8
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
9
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
10
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
11
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
12
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Jamyang Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $14,500 · OtherCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Co…Individual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEARTH ISLAND: $13,000 · OtherEARTH ISLANDPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · OtherPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATIONGREENPEACE INC: $9,000 · OtherGREENPEACE INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINUS PAULINGOREGON ST UNIV: $7,000 · OtherLINUS PAULINGOREGON ST UNIVCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL ALLN: $6,500 · OtherCONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL ALLNPARISH OF SAINT MARY'S B C: $4,700 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $30,500 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERS…EARTHTRUST: $17,500 · AnimalsEARTHTRUSTDefenders of Wildlife: $8,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeEARTHJUSTICE: $17,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICELLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentLLOYD CENTER FOR THE EN…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $12,700 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE F…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 · InternationalCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $8,000 · HealthCornell University: $5,500 · Education
Other$95,700Animals$56,000Environment$45,200International$12,000Health$8,000Education$5,500

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 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
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 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHTRUST ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMYANG FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 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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