California · Private foundation
The Oprah Winfrey Charitable 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.
- $23M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,919,077
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $172M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $23M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $19M | 86% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $11M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $15M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $36M | 86% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $24M | 67% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $20M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation | $34,082,020 | 5 | 95% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $20,000,000 | 3 | 5% |
| US Dream Academy Inc | $6,847,972 | 5 | 46% |
| Morehouse College | $6,500,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ron Clark Academy Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Halo Foundation | $5,000,000 | 2 | 55% |
| Herrendorf Family Foundation Inc | $3,349,900 | 2 | 76% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $2,738,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative | $2,200,000 | 2 | 20% |
| National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc | $1,600,000 | 3 | 27% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($41M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Pledgeling Foundation · Wasserman Foundation · The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation give?
- The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $23,439,360 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Youth Development (16%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation ($34M), The Barack Obama Foundation ($20M), US Dream Academy Inc ($6.8M).
- Does The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation 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 Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pledgeling Foundation, Wasserman Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation based?
- The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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