California · Nonprofit
THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION
THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation does
Mission
The organization is an independent school which strives to provide a nurturing educational environment for academically gifted girls who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The educational programs are designed for girls in grades 8 to 12 who have demostrated academic talent and leadereship potential. The students are equipped with the intellectual and social skills necessary to assume positions of leadership in south africa and abroad.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation partnered with the guateng member of the executive council for education and the guateng department of education to build and operate the oprah winfrey leadership academy for disadvantaged south african female students. The academy is an independent school.
$8,612,909 spent89% of program spendingThe Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation assists outstanding students graduating from the oprah winfrey leadership academy for girls with scholarship support to attend college.
$1,059,537 spentof which $1,042,119 as grants11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,672,446.
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 2017 to 2018, from $30M to $19M (−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: 2017 2% · 2018 9% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $34M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation · exempt
- Ow Licensing Co LLC · partnership
- Oprah University LLC · partnership
- Harpo Films Inc · corp_trust
- Harpo Productions Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 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 THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION?
- THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OPRAH WINFREY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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