Indiana · Private foundation
White Oak Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,020,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations White Oak Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k 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 | 25 | $2.5M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $882k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $931k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.0M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $695k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $500k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $389k | 37% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $332k | 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 Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc | $1,947,471 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of Central Indiana Inc | $955,767 | 4 | 0% |
| Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Inc | $555,027 | 7 | n/a |
| Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-Of-The-Woods | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park Tudor Foundation Inc | $166,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Oak Hill School | $120,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Shepherd Community Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Indianapolis Downtown Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
White Oak Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About White Oak Foundation Inc
- How much does White Oak Foundation Inc give?
- White Oak Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $3,040,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does White Oak Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Arts & Culture (23%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are White Oak Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ($1.9M), United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($956k), Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Inc ($555k).
- Does White Oak Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does White Oak Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as White Oak Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc.
- Where is White Oak Foundation Inc based?
- White Oak Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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