Oxfam-America Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 23-7069110. Reported 82 grants totalling $3,757,502 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Oxfam-America Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 24% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $23,250. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $38,250; the smallest was $8,750 and the largest $678,462. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stichting Oxfam International | Washington, DC | $678,462 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coordinadora Paz Para La Mujer Inc | San Juan, PR | $402,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Way Mississippi Inc | Jackson, MS | $365,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oxfam America Action Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $262,253 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dependable Source Corp Center for Community & Workforce Development | Jackson, MS | $168,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation | Jackson, MS | $110,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Living Wage for US | Sleepy Hollow, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mongabayorg Corporation | Menlo Park, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Proyecto Matria Inc | Caguas, PR | $91,856 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Justice Center | Raleigh, NC | $87,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Inc | Washington, DC | $83,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| One Voice Inc | Oceana, WV | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kilometro 0 Inc | San Juan, PR | $62,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women | Milwaukee, WI | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Coalicion De Coaliciones Pro Personas Sin Hogar De Puerto Rico | Ponce, PR | $50,680 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Better Balance | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Haser Inc | San Juan, PR | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Inter-Mujeres Puerto Rico Corporacion | San Juan, PR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resilient Power Puerto Rico | San Juan, PR | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Puerto Rico School of Law Trust | San Juan, PR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Democracy in Action | New Orleans, LA | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund | Atlanta, GA | $44,800 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment | Durham, NC | $40,001 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mayors Healthy City Initiative | Baton Rouge, LA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Project South the Institution for the Elimination Poverty & Genocide | Atlanta, GA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Espacios Abiertos Puerto Rico Inc | San Juan, PR | $38,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Families Planning Association of Puerto Rico | San Juan, PR | $38,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Alpha Community Development Corporation | Florence, SC | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Institute for Enhanced Equity | New Orleans, LA | $33,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Powerswitch Action | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| One Voice | Jackson, MS | $26,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Agricultural Missions Inc | New York, NY | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| AIDS Services Coalition | Hattiesburg, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Relief Coalition for Syria | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Center for Labor Social and Spiritual Activism | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mesa Multisectorial Del Bosque Modelo De Pr Inc | Utuado, PR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Occidental Arts and Ecology Center | Occidental, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sol Nation Inc | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Rural Black Women Initiative for Social Economic Jus | Jackson, MS | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Lighthouse Black Girl Project | Jackson, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Power Coalition for Equity and Justice | New Orleans, LA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United for Respect Education Fund | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pennsylvania Policy Center | Harrisburg, PA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Vote to Live Foundation | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Collective Education Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Forward Justice | Morrisville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Foundation for Pennsylvaniawatersheds | Johnstown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health | Ridgeland, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mississippi Journalism and Education Group | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Movement for Community-Led Development | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peoples Justice Council | Birmingham, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tribal Images Museum Inc | Vinton, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Workplace Justice Project | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec | Durham, NC | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
17 of 57 (30%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- University of Puerto Rico School of Law Trust
FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT & ESSENTIAL SERVICES - Democracy in Action
ECONOMIC AND RACIAL JUSTICE - Dependable Source Corp Center for Community & Workforce Development
GENDER JUSTICE AND INCLUSION HUB
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 45 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $1,044,500 | $40,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $856,786 | $38,250 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,182,163 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 11 | $456,753 | $20,000 |
| 2025 | 15 | $217,300 | $12,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
24% of its giving went to organizations in Puerto Rico. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $23,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Puerto Rico.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Oxfam-America Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 77 North Washington Street 500, Boston, MA, 02114.
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