California · Nonprofit
Oakes Children's Center
Oakes Children's Center (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,751 to it, the largest being GEORGE H SANDY FOUNDATION co US BANKNA ($420,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Woodlawn Foundationshared funders
- Childrens Services Foundation Dba Catalyst Centerportfolio match
- The Banks Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 91% · 2018 87% · 2019 88% · 2020 86% · 2021 86% · 2022 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $110k → $31k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Oakes Children's Center’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
Oakes Children's Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 90% · 2020 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 84% — 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
17% of Oakes Children's Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 FY2022, 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
Oakes Children's Center draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Woodlawn Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Childrens Services Foundation Dba Catalyst Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Banks Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boris and Vera Bogart Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loved Twiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mind Ocportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oakland Public Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutionsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Davis & Bergard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ashbury Childrens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atkinson Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Oakes Children's Center
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
15% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oakes Children's Center: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Oakes Children's Center?
- Oakes Children's Center (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,751 to it, the largest being GEORGE H SANDY FOUNDATION co US BANKNA ($420,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oakes Children's Center have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $569,751 in grants to Oakes Children's Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oakes Children's Center?
- GEORGE H SANDY FOUNDATION co US BANKNA is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oakes Children's Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing