How much did THE OXFORD AREA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$8.0MArts & Culture$646kHuman Services$318kHealth$241kEducation$96kScience & Tech$63kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$11kEnvironment$10kOther$3.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

budgettournament holeconnective festivalspring banquetgolf tournamentwatereducational

2019

golf holehole foursomeudancesnowball tabledeltagalameals

2020

emergencygolf tournamentunion firesilomeals

2021

meals wheels

2022

westunion firemeals wheels

2023

water

2024

union firemeals wheels

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $25k
$10k–50k18 grants · $306k
$50k–250k1 grant · $101k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants

OXFORD MAINSTREET INC$101,000
OAHA$35,000
OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER$30,000
NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER$27,500
GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR$25,200
SILO$25,000
STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER$25,000
LORD'S HOUSE OF PRAYER$20,000
LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY$15,000
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER$13,660
OXFORD LIBRARY COMPANY$10,000
DIVINE SENT FOOD CUPBOARD$10,000
UNION FIRE COMPANY NO 1 AMBULANCE$10,000
SOLANCO AREA MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
CASA MATERNA$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.1M · 54 repeat orgs$8.4M to everyone else

54 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$8.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+117%

Still filing today

41%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

OM
OXFORD MAINSTREET INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $526k · revenue +84% · 29% of their budget
NL
NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $117k · revenue +343%
OL
OXFORD LIBRARY COMPANY
6× · 2019–2024 · $91k · revenue +38%

Funded once

LF
LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $8.0M · revenue -95% · 99% of their budget
CC
CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +73%
PM
PHOENIX MULTISPORTgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +306%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Oxford Community Center Inc

Programs and activities that enrich community life

Arts & Culture

Oxford Ambulance Association Inc

To provide ambulance service between the town and medical facilities, that are convenient to the town of oxford.

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Wexford County Council On Aging

To provide resources and support for wexford county residents, sixty and older.

Human Services

Chamber of Commerce of Greater West Chester Inc

The organization was formed to provide leadership concerning business issues impacting on the local economy and quality of life.

—

Berks Community Health Center

To provide exceptional primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of the county.

Health

Quiet Oaks

Provide comfort and care to terminally ill persons and their families in a home-like setting

Human Services

Oxford Fire Company Inc

To provide volunteer fire rescue and emergency medical services to the local area and mutual aid to the outlying areas.

Public Safety & Disaster

Wallingford Committee On Aging Inc

To provide services and programs for the older adults of the wallingford community that promote their well being, support their independence and encourage their involvement in community life.

Human Services

The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

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Ohio Hills Health Services

Delivery of health care to the local community and surrounding areas

—

Chester County Economic Development

To foster economic growth in chester county, pa by providing means to low interest financing for new and existing businesses, site selection assistance, grant management and other services.

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Lexington Chamber of Commerce

Serves as an advocate for business by fostering economic growth and prosperity for the benefit of the lexington community.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Chester County and the most unlike its peers is The Leafglen Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

12%

1,816/15,743

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

26/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$8,000,000Other$3,062,741Arts & Culture$645,500Human Services$318,050Health$241,000Education$95,500Science & Tech$62,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dansko Foundation IncPA37.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dansko Foundation Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Oxford Civic Association · Beatty Helen D Groome Uw · Justamere Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE OXFORD AREA FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 352599437 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Oxford Area Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Oxford Area Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE OXFORD AREA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Oxford Area Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE OXFORD AREA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Oxford Area Foundation?

More from the funding graph