California · Nonprofit
Oakland Indie Alliance
Oakland Indie Alliance (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,857 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE ($40,957). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $205k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Oakland Indie Alliance does
Mission
Founded in 2017 the Oakland Indie Alliance OIA is a community of more than 500 small-scale entrepreneurs who have united under a common goal of preserving Oakland's variety energy and social fabric. Through sharing experiences connections and advocating for Oakland's independent economy OIA allows small businesses to thrive.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Provide marketing via Keep It Oakland campaign and advocate for small businesses with the City of Oakland local business districts and other non-profit organizations
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $71k.
From the IRS filings of Oakland Indie Alliance’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
Oakland Indie Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Oakland Indie Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 58% — 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
Oakland Indie Alliance draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Oakland Indie Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,615 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,615 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020
Organizations like Oakland Indie Alliance
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Independent Business Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oakland Indie Alliance: 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 Oakland Indie Alliance?
- Oakland Indie Alliance (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,857 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE ($40,957). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oakland Indie Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $80,857 in grants to Oakland Indie Alliance.
- Who is the largest funder of Oakland Indie Alliance?
- AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $40,957 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oakland Indie Alliance 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 3 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