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The Oxford Area Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$432k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.0MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$581kCommunity Improvement$535kHealth$470kFood & Nutrition$324kEducation$270kHousing & Shelter$194kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $306k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER$25,000
SILO$25,000
LORD'S HOUSE OF PRAYER$20,000
LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY$15,000
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER$13,660
DIVINE SENT FOOD CUPBOARD$10,000
OXFORD LIBRARY COMPANY$10,000
UNION FIRE COMPANY NO 1 AMBULANCE$10,000
YOUNG MOMS$10,000
UNION FIRE COMPANY NO 1$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $739k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $10k → 22%CHAZAK: $3k → 9%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $10k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $3k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%YMCA: $10k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $25k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $25k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $25k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $20k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $20k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $20k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $20k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $15k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $15k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $15k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $15k → 6%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY: $10k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $10k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $10k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $10k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $10k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $5k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $5k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $5k → 6%HANDI-CRAFTERS: $15k → 6%HANDI-CRAFTERS: $15k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 6%HANDI-CRAFTERS INC: $5k → 6%SILO: $40k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $38k → 6%SILO: $35k → 6%SILO: $30k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $30k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $30k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $25k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $25k → 6%SILO: $25k → 6%SILO: $25k → 6%SILO: $22k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $15k → 6%OXFORD SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 6%SILO: $6k → 6%SILO: $5k → 6%OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 6%SILO: $4k → 6%SILO: $3k → 6%SILO: $3k → 6%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

MN
PA
CA
CO
MD
DE
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 51 repeat orgs$8.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
42

Total granted

$4.1M
$8.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+44%

Still filing today

57%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BC
    Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +144%
  • OM
    OXFORD MAINSTREET INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $526k · revenue +84% · 29% of their budget
  • SW
    SILO WORKS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $198k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $8.0M · revenue -93% · 99% of their budget
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • PM
    PHOENIX MULTISPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +306%
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
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
2
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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3
Oxford Ambulance Association Inc

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

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4
Oxford University School

Providing educational services to children in grades pre-k through 7th grade

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5
Chester County Community Foundation

The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
8
Oxford Community Center Inc

To provide a welcoming place where area residents and visitors of all ages can participate in programs and activities that enrich community life.

Arts & Culture
9
The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County

Securing justice for, protecting the rights of and rendering legal assistance and representation to indigent residents and non-residents of westchester county.

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10
Southern Chester County Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide professional advanced life support services to the community.

Health
11
Western Connecticut Area Agency On Aging Inc

The western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…

Human Services
12
Westchester Institute for Human Development

The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Chester County; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 94 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LEAFGLEN FOUNDATIONBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $1,097,450 · Arts & CultureBrandywine Cons…OXFORD MAINSTREET INC: $525,500 · Arts & CultureOXFORD MAINSTRE…Oxford Arts Alliance Inc: $120,000 · Arts & CultureOxford Arts All…OAHA: $120,000 · OtherOAHAFAMILY PROMISE: $109,883 · OtherFAMILY PROMI…1IN6 INC: $105,000 · Other1IN6 INCOXFORD LIBRARY COMPANY: $91,400 · OtherOXFORD LIBRA…Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $85,000 · OtherMake-A-Wish …FAMILY PROMISE OF SCC: $67,254 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $63,000 · OtherSTROUD: $50,000 · OtherSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $62,500 · Other+55 more: $635,684 · Other+55 moreSILO WORKS: $197,500 · Human ServicesOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $168,950 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $160,200 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMS: $45,000 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community Services: $40,000 · Human ServicesHANDI-CRAFTERS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $25,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $25,000 · Human Services+6 more: $52,500 · Human ServicesNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $116,500 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $40,000 · HealthUNION FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $30,000 · HealthCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $24,500 · HealthTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $15,500 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $153,020 · Religion+1 more: $450 · ReligionCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $65,000 · EducationOxford Educational Foundation: $30,500 · EducationWEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$8,000,000Arts & Culture$1,742,950Other$1,389,721Human Services$749,150Health$276,500Religion$153,470Education$120,500

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 budgetTHE LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $1,097,450 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetOXFORD MAINSTREET INC: $525,500 over 8y, 29% of budgetSILO WORKS: $197,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $168,950 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $160,200 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $153,020 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetOxford Arts Alliance Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $116,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budget1IN6 INC: $105,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetOXFORD LIBRARY COMPANY: $91,400 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $65,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $62,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNGMOMS: $45,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHANDI-CRAFTERS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $31,462 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOxford Educational Foundation: $30,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetUNION FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $25,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $24,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWHITE CLAY SOCCER CLUB: $21,500 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OAKS MINISTRY: $11,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT FULTON FIRE CO: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOxford Area Chamber of Commerce: $9,875 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEAN LOCKE 24 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetZOE'S HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHAZAK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 THE LEAFGLEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds OXFORD MAINSTREET INC ↗
  • Who funds SILO WORKS ↗
  • Who funds OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Oxford Arts Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds 1IN6 INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFORD LIBRARY COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGMOMS ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
  • Who funds HANDI-CRAFTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Oxford Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNION FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
  • Who funds WHITE CLAY SOCCER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗

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.

Chester County Commun…The Dansko Foundation…United Way of Souther…The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Chester…Connelly FoundationOxford Civic Associat…Cabot-Kjellerup Found…Justamere FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…Hankin FoundationWsfs Cares Foundation
Chester County Community FoundationPA46.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Sean Locke 24 Foundation: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 94 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home