Georgia · Nonprofit
Historic Oakland Foundation Inc
Historic Oakland Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,647,303 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc ($1,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Historic Oakland Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Historic Oakland Foundation partners with the City of Atlanta to preserve, restore, enhance, and share Oakland Cemetery with the public as an important island of tranquilty in the heart of the city.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hardscape - HOF continued its largest ever preservation project on 6 acres of the Cemetery's East Hill, with most of the hardscape work completed. HOF also broke ground on the nearly $6.5 million new Oakland Cemetery Visitor Center outside the Cemetery's main western gate in late 2023. Adjacent to HOF's preservation and restoration work, and with HOF as a critical partner, the City of Atlanta invested $2.4 million in to the restoration of historic Oakland Cemetery's roads, irrigation, and storm water infrastructure.
$728,249 spent33% of program spendingGardens - In 2023, HOF's gardens teams continued to expand how much of the Cemetery was under theFoundation's control through expanded work on the East Hill as well as increased activity restoring and maintaining private lots. With increased maintenance activity the Foundation actively maintains almost 18 acres of the Cemetery.
$1,021,813 spent46% of program spendingProgramming/Education - With the expansion of Illumine, Sunday in the Park, Capturing the Spirit of Oakland, and Dia de Muertos - the Foundation's signature special events had a strong year welcoming tens of thousands of visitors of all ages to the Cemetery. Additionally, the Foundation launched a new workforce development program for local high school students, called The Youth Landscape & Hardscape Team, giving the students practical employment and skill training at Oakland over the summer months.
$471,641 spent$82,147 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,221,703.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.9M to $11M (+55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Richard Harker
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $134k → $1.2M.
12 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Historic Oakland Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Historic Oakland Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
29% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Historic Oakland Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 51% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 34% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of Historic Oakland Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of Historic Oakland Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Historic Oakland Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$116k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Historic Oakland Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- OTG Oakland LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Historic Oakland Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc?
- Historic Oakland Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,647,303 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc ($1,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Historic Oakland Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $8,647,303 in grants to Historic Oakland Foundation Inc, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Historic Oakland Foundation Inc?
- Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Historic Oakland Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 95 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing