Michigan · Nonprofit
OAKDALE FOUNDATION
OAKDALE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,116 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $934k
What Oakdale Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Oakdale Foundation is to provide funding and other resources necessary to further the mission of oakdale academy: to instill character, truth, and wisdom in our students in such a way that when they leave us at graduation, they are truly prepared for a life of service to god, country, community, and family.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Oakdale Foundation, through its academy, strives to develop within its students the intellectual and personal habits and skills upon which responsible and productive lives are built, in the firm belief that such lives are the basis of a free and just society. Oakdale academy helps guide students in the development of their character and academic potential through academically rigorous, content-rich educational programs and extracurricular activities. The liberal arts curriculum directs student achievement toward mastery of the basics, exploration of the arts and sciences, and an understanding the foundational principles of our judeo-christian and greco-roman heritage. The curriculum, by purpose and design, is a combination of the best spiritual, intellectual and cultural traditions, developed and refined over countless generations, to return our students to the great educational heritage of the west.
$1,815,145 spentof which $367,438 as grants100% of program spendingExtracurricular student activities
$3,283 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,818,428.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $2.8M (+35%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of OAKDALE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Michael F Sias
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $8k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 OAKDALE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
OAKDALE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 OAKDALE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
78% of OAKDALE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
OAKDALE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OAKDALE FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OAKDALE FOUNDATION: 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 OAKDALE FOUNDATION?
- OAKDALE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,116 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OAKDALE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $114,116 in grants to OAKDALE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAKDALE FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAKDALE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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