Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Oxford Area Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $432k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $101,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Oxford Area Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 28 | $432k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $479k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $809k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $606k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $466k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $762k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $390k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $8.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Leafglen Foundation | $8,000,000 | 1 | 99% |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art | $1,097,450 | 6 | 3% |
| Oxford Mainstreet Inc | $525,500 | 8 | 29% |
| Silo Works | $197,500 | 8 | 12% |
| Oxford Area Neighborhood Services Center Inc | $168,950 | 6 | 6% |
| Good Neighbors Inc | $160,200 | 8 | 3% |
| Lighthouse Youth Ministries Inc | $153,020 | 8 | 5% |
| Oxford Arts Alliance Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 11% |
| New London Counseling Center | $116,500 | 4 | 8% |
| 1in6 Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 7% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($894k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Oxford Area Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Chester County · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Connelly Foundation · Oxford Civic Association · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · Justamere Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Hankin Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation
How this is measured
About The Oxford Area Foundation
- How much does The Oxford Area Foundation give?
- The Oxford Area Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $432,155 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Oxford Area Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (64%), Arts & Culture (10%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are The Oxford Area Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Leafglen Foundation ($8.0M), Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ($1.1M), Oxford Mainstreet Inc ($526k).
- Does The Oxford Area Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oxford Area Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Oxford Area Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, The Dansko Foundation Inc, United Way of Southern Chester County.
- Where is The Oxford Area Foundation based?
- The Oxford Area Foundation is based in PA.
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