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Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc

Terre Haute, IN · EIN 23-7008034. Reported 68 grants totalling $2,213,550 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$2,213,550granted, 2021-2024
39organizations funded
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$14.8Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $175,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods CollegeSaint Mary of the Wood, IN$250,000332023
Indiana State University FoundationTerre Haute, IN$200,000442024
Ivy Tech FoundationTerre Haute, IN$200,000442024
Art Spaces IncTerre Haute, IN$175,000112024
Terre Haute Police DepartmentTerre Haute, IN$113,500222024
Friends of Rea ParkTerre Haute, IN$100,000222022
Purdue for Life FoundationWest Lafayette, IN$100,000112021
Swope Art MuseumTerre Haute, IN$100,000112024
Thrive West CentralTerre Haute, IN$100,000222024
University of Central FloridaOrlando, FL$100,000442024
Wabash Valley Community FoundationTerre Haute, IN$100,000112023
Terre Haute Symphony OrchestraTerre Haute, IN$60,000442024
Happiness Bag IncTerre Haute, IN$50,000112024
Optimist International FoundationSaint Louis, MO$50,000222024
Vigo Co Historical SocietyTerre Haute, IN$50,000112022
Wabash River Development & Beautification IncTerre Haute, IN$50,000222024
Vigo Co Education FoundationWest Terre Haute, IN$40,000222023
West Terre Haute Police DepartmentWest Terre Haute, IN$33,000222023
Collett Park Neighborhood AssociationTerre Haute, IN$30,000112021
Meals on WheelsTerre Haute, IN$30,000112024
Chances for Youth IncTerre Haute, IN$25,000222024
Edge 21 IncGreencastle, IN$25,000112022
Susie's Place Child Advocacy CenterTerre Haute, IN$25,000112022
Junior AchievementTerre Haute, IN$20,000222024
Streator Twnshp High SchoolStreator, IL$20,000332023
Terre Haute Childrens MuseumTerre Haute, IN$20,000222022
Wabash Valley Habitat for HumanityTerre Haute, IN$20,000112022
Purdue Extension Parke CountyRockville, IN$18,650222024
14TH and Chestnut Community CenterTerre Haute, IN$15,000112024
Terre Haute Womens ClubTerre Haute, IN$15,000112021
Rose Hulman Inst of TechnologyTerre Haute, IN$13,900112023
Rethink IncTerre Haute, IN$12,500112021
Brazil Police DepartmentBrazil, IN$10,000112021
Streator Township High SchoolStreator, IL$10,000112024
Purdue Extension Vigo CountyTerre Haute, IN$9,500112022
Union Hospital FoundationTerre Haute, IN$7,500332024
Hoosiers Feeding the HungryGarrett, IN$5,000112022
Providence Food PantryWest Terre Haute, IN$5,000112024
Town of FarmersburgFarmersburg, IN$5,000112021

18 of 39 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 44%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
16 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Environment
3 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$530,000$15,000
202216$449,500$25,000
202315$551,900$25,000
202419$682,150$25,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in Indiana. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Indiana
$2.0M
Florida
$100K
Missouri
$50K
Illinois
$30K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDuke Energy Foundation10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsGregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation7 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Indiana.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 120 S Fruitridge Ave, Terre Haute, IN, 47803. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-7008034 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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