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The Oak Foundation USA

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$24.1M
in grants paid
42
grants
27
recipients
2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 42 grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

  • $4.3M

    Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2024

    To support hcf's vision of an equitable and vibrant hawaii, where all island communities thrive.

  • $750,000

    Book Harvest · Durham, NC · 2024

    To provide support to book harvest in its efforts to transform literacy for under-resourced children across north carolina.

  • $500,000

    Cast · Lynnfield, MA · 2024

    To provide core support to cast in its work to transform education design and practice in the us, until learning has no limits.

  • $500,000

    Upstream USA · Boston, MA · 2024

    To provide core support to upstream us in the us.

  • $401,520

    New Teacher Center · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

    To provide support to the new teacher center, based in california, to pilot innovative professional teaching that equips teachers and staff to support students with learning differences.

  • $400,000

    Vocal-Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    To provide general support to vocal-ny, a grassroots membership organization based in new york city that builds the collective voice of people who live on low-incomes and are experiencing homelessness to create healthy …

  • $300,000

    Proteus Fund · New York, NY · 2024

    To provide core support to puentes.

  • $185,990

    President & Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To advance knowledge and support the development of innovative science and technology oriented policy solutions to address india's climate and energy challenges.

  • $99,064

    Arc4justice · Needham, MA · 2024

    To support the center for social innovation, based in the us, which works to improve the lives of marginalized and vulnerable people.

  • $7.7M

    Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023

    To create a better hawaii by inspiring generosity, advocating for equity, building connections, and investing in the community

  • $750,000

    Book Harvest · Durham, NC · 2023

    To promote literacy for every community by ensuring every child has books and parents receive support

  • $500,000

    Cast · Lynnfield, MA · 2023

    To create fair and inclusive learning experiences worldwide using the universal design for learning framework

  • $500,000

    Upstream USA · Boston, MA · 2023

    To make comprehensive contraceptive care accessible and patient-centered across all healthcare settings

  • $500,000

    East Durham Childrens Initiative · Durham, NC · 2023

    To create high-quality services for youth and their families that overcomes the barriers to their success so every youth graduates from high school ready for college or career

  • $430,281

    The Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Harnessing the power of technology to protect people and mangroves

  • $400,000

    Vocal-Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    To mobilize low-income people to end the aids epidemic, the war on drugs, mass incarceration and homelessness

  • $347,531

    New Teacher Center · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

    To challenge and change the educational disadvantages faced by under-served students by enhancing the effectiveness of educators

  • $300,000

    Proteus Fund · New York, NY · 2023

    To advance justice, equity, and an inclusive, representative democracy

  • $299,125

    Center for Learner Equity · New York, NY · 2023

    Committed to ensuring that students with disabilities, particularly those in under-resourced communities, have the quality educational opportunities and choices they need to thrive and learn

  • $245,816

    International Justice Mission · Arlington, VA · 2023

    To create a safer, more just world, combating modern slavery, exploitation, and abuse by addressing the vulnerabilities caused by poverty

  • $200,000

    Center for Digital Democracy · Washington, DC · 2023

    To ensure digital technologies uphold democratic values, protect privacy and rights, and promote equity, fairness, and community

  • $99,998

    National Housing Institute Dba Shelterforce · Montclair, NJ · 2023

    To use independent journalism to inspire, inform, and hold accountable those working towards just, equitable, and thriving communities with affordable housing for all

  • $97,929

    Arc4justice · Needham, MA · 2023

    To ensure the vision of housing stability and healthy communities becomes reality by using community-centered, data-informed solutions

  • $90,000

    Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center in Durham · Durham, NC · 2023

    To improve the lives of children in durham and keep families together through support, training, and community awareness, encouraging everyone to contribute to creating safe and responsive environments for children

  • $537,157

    The Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2022

    To global mangrove watch phase 2: harnessing the power of technology to protect people and mangroves

  • $414,415

    Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence -University of Melbourne · 2022

    Unrestricted programme support - psychological violence research

  • $400,000

    Heartland Alliance · Chicago, IL · 2022

    To promote the human rights of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, particularly those deprived of their liberty in immigration detention. Heartland alliance's national immigrant justice center uses a multi-prong ap…

  • $400,000

    Project Home · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To enable project home to build quality and capacity within its residential programmes to end and prevent homelessness in philadelphia. Project home (which stands for housing, opportunities for employment, medical care,…

  • $291,830

    Center for Learner Equity · New York, NY · 2022

    Committed to ensuring that students with disabilities, particularly those in under-resourced communities, have the quality educational opportunities and choices they need to thrive and learn. The center for learner equi…

  • $228,560

    Darkness To Light · North Charleston, SC · 2022

    Strengthening organisational safeguarding for oak grantees

  • $214,120

    International Justice Mission · Washington, DC · 2022

    To address impunity and providing justice for victims of child sexual abuse

  • $212,500

    Donors Choose · New York, NY · 2022

    To provide donors choose access to resources for educators

  • $212,430

    As You Sow · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    To provide shareholder activism on plastics pollution

  • $205,641

    As You Sow · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    To provide shareholder activism on plastics pollution

  • $200,000

    Center for Digital Democracy · Washington, DC · 2022

    To safeguard young people and promote children's rights in a digital environment

  • $192,532

    Native American Rights Fund · Anchorage, AK · 2022

    Securing protections for the northern bering sea

  • $180,688

    President & Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    To advance collaboration to strengthen capacity and knowledge to address climate and sustainable development challenges.

  • $100,002

    National Housing Institute Dba Shelterforce · Montclair, NJ · 2022

    To support investigative journalism

  • $100,000

    Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center · Boston, MA · 2022

    To make economic stability a reality for more people throughout massachusetts, so that those on lower incomes can become economically independent. Massbudget is a not-for-profit organisation producing independent analys…

  • $97,883

    The African Wildlife Foundation · Washington, WA · 2022

    To enhance operational efficiency and rhino protection at zimbabwe's save valley conservancy

  • $80,000

    Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center in Durham Inc Dba Exchange · Durham, NC · 2022

    To provide core support

  • $71,000

    Compass Working Capital · Boston, MA · 2022

    To identify ways to extend the reach of cwc's family self-sufficiency programme. To do so, it will facilitate in-depth quantitative and qualitative research on the inclusion of younger parents, single people and under-r…

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