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The Old Oak Foundation at a glance

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The Old Oak Foundation

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$270k
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 2024.

Human Services$1.2MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$641kHealth$525kPhilanthropy$353kInternational$227kAnimals$164kRecreation & Sports$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $520k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS GIFT HR CHARITABLE GIVING$270,495
MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND$250,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$100,000
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$50,000
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$50,000
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$50,000
NETWORK FOR GOOD$41,200
BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION (BSUF)$37,500
NETWORK FOR GOOD$30,900
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY FOR PARENTS ANNUAL GIVING$25,000
THE PUBLIC THEATRE$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$10,000
UCLA MEDICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM FUND$8,700
UCLA MEDICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM FUND$8,700
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $250k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $250k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $250k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $100k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $100k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $51k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $51k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $50k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $25k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $25k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $25k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $1k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $16k → 14%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

MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The Old Oak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 63%.

The Old Oak Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 28 repeat orgs$929k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
39

Total granted

$3.4M
$653k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+22%

Still filing today

43%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +25%
  • PS
    POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $585k · revenue +44%
  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue +33%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CA PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue +36%
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
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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5
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
12
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Leadership Academy; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 74 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS GIFT HR CHARITABLE GIVING: $270,495 · OtherMS GIFT HR CHARITABLE GIVINGUCLA MEDICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM FUND: $246,900 · OtherUCLA MEDICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM FUNDKPCC SO CA PUBLIC RADIO: $200,000 · OtherKPCC SO CA PUBLIC RADIOPRINCETON UNIVERSITY FOR PARENTS ANNUAL GIVING: $180,000 · OtherPRINCETON UNIVERSITY FOR PARENTS ANNUAL GIVINGIndividual grant recipient: $121,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHERN CA PUBLIC RADIO: $100,000 · OtherTHE PUBLIC THEATRE: $100,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $75,400 · OtherBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $93,250 · Other+39 more: $695,341 · Other+39 moreMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $1,188,564 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION…+2 more: $26,766 · Human ServicesPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $585,100 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHO…UCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Education+5 more: $45,836 · Education+5 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $226,500 · PhilanthropyTHE AURELIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $110,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $25,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $10,500 · HealthLUPUS LA CO EMERGE: $6,000 · Health+3 more: $4,100 · HealthACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,167,386Human Services$1,215,330Education$665,936Philanthropy$236,500Animals$151,000Health$120,600Arts & Culture$105,000

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 budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $1,188,564 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $585,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $226,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $93,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $72,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $51,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ENCINOS SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $40,340 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTAKING THE REINS: $15,766 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $15,320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $10,336 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AURELIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Concord Review Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING CALIFORNIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUITARIAN INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $100 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 MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
  • Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ENCINOS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Marilyn and Jeffr…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…
California Community FoundationCA18.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 74 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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