The Ojai Foundation

FUNDING

funding office scholarship fund gratitude

As a non-profit organization, our programs and services cost more to deliver than you might expect, certainly more than we can reasonably charge the individuals and communities we serve. Over all, TOF earns approximately 40% of its operating budget from program income and fees for services. This means our award-winning youth and school programs; trainings for teachers, family counselors, health and service professionals; rites-of-passage programs for young and old; and retreats for families, artists, and activists - all need additional funding. Moreover, we are committed to making scholarships available to those in need, whenever possible.

We seek to raise the remaining 60% of our budget through gifts, grants, contributions, and in-kind donations in order to continue these much needed programs.

Our Annual Appeal, which helps cover our operating overhead, generates approximately $100,000 per year from an expanding circle of regular annual donors who embrace our mission. Annual donors are offered various discounts and free retreats at our Center in Ojai, depending on their level of giving. We have three basic categories of giving:

Council of Friends - $100 or more per year

Benefactors - $1,000/year

Sustainers - $5,000/year

In addition, we are blessed with support from a number of individual donors who make major annual gifts.

The Funding Office

The Board of Directors and the Leadership Council oversee the Funding Office, a centralized function for implementing our fundraising initiatives, grant writing, and our Annual Appeal drives.

In addition, the Office keeps all corporate records, minutes of Board meetings, donor databases, and the corporate seal.

The Office is under the direction of Marlow Hotchkiss, Co-Director of the The Ojai Foundation, and staffed by a small group of part-time and volunteer workers who assist with fundraising and donor support services, as well as tracking all grants and corporate giving programs directed to our various community projects and activities.

The Funding Office also oversees TOF's own donation program and the awarding of small gifts to sister organizations.

Scholarship Fund

In addition to donations for operational support and program development, we specifically encourage gifts to our Scholarship Fund so that young people, especially "at-risk" youth, have access to our various retreats and ropes programs. The Fund also supports teachers using Council in schools who may need assistance in taking appropriate trainings for further CEUs.

The Ojai Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, under both Federal and California regulations.

Our Federal tax exempt identification number is: EIN 51-0151116.

All programs and services are offered regardless of age, race, color, sexual preference, economic status, or creed.

For further information about tax-exempt donations and our Circle of Friends, please feel free to call Laura Whitney, President at (805) 798.5231

In Gratitude

We'd like to offer our thanks and appreciation to our supporters:

Major Donors

Herb Alpert Foundation

Annenberg Foundation

Burton G. Bettingen Corp.

Tony Brown Foundation

Nathan Cummings Foundation

Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund

Karen Paine-Gernee

Louis & Harold Price Foundaiton

Laurance Rockefeller

Scheerer Family Foundation

Alan B. Slifka Foundation

Sony Entertainment

Strome Family Foundation

Tides Foundation

Threshold Foundation

Sustainers

Laurie Adami

Ron & Tova Claman

Gigi Coyle

Margot & Roger Milliken

Schick Foundation

Alan Slifka

Grant Abert & Nancy Ward

Cricket & Harry Wilson

Jack Zimmerman & Jaquelyn McCandless

Benefactors

Lana & Ken Brody

Mark Brown

The Emissaries

Jeanne Dickenson & James Graham

Larry & Maj Hagman

David Hill

Freya & Mark Ivener

The Harp Foundation of the Adobe Corporation

Roy A. Hunt Foundation

Krystyna Jurzykowski

Kelly Kagan

Lola Rae & John Long

Max Milton

Mary Orr & Russell Atkinson

Connie Packard

James & Radha Sloss

The Tamblyn Family

Marcin Whitman

Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation

Seeley Mudd Foundation

Surdna Foundation

Council of Friends

Michael Abbott & Lynne Shore

Stuart Abelson

Ken & Mimi Adams

Lori Andrews

Berit Axelsson

Carole & Alexander Babcock

Annie Barnes

Norma Becerra

George Berg

Laurie Bernhard

Michael Bissonnette

Pam Bjork

Chuck Blitz

Suzie N. & Tony Bohnett

Katherine Boone

Dorothy Boothe

Sally Bradley-Golding

Delia Brinton

David & Lucia Vinograd Bryan

John Burt

Charles Casey Ingrid Boulting

Hyla Cass, M.D.

Rodney Charles

Robert Chartoff & Jennie Weyman

Jillian Chelson Briscoe & Mark Briscoe

Jim Churchill

John Clausen & Frances Edwards

Edward Condit

Sima Conrad

John Cook, Jr.

Alfred J. & Betty Coyle

Chris Daley

Christine Dawkins

Enid Dickson

Jon Dieges

Margaret Dieges

Debbie Donovan

Lily Dulan

Lutz Durrmeier

Christoph Mary-Clayton Enderlein

Wilma Engel

Elliot Estrin

Desmond Fitzgerald & Lucinda Zeising

Gerald & Colm Fitzgerald

Alan Forrest

Colin & Hedy Friedman

Steve Friedman

Stephen Friedman

Paula Fuld

Petra Gallasch

Andrew Getz & Teresa Koke

Stephen B. Ivy Ann Giles

Dana Gluckstein & Michael Deedan

Kathleen & Peter Golden

Sharon Gonzales-Alei

Brwyn Griffin

Joseph L Rita Gruber

Hans & Annika Gruenn

Deborah Gunther

Sitara Harvey-Cook

Daniel V. & Lory Hawley

Jackie Henderson

Michael & Tricia Hernandez

Richard Hirschkoff & Louise Ken

Virginia & Allen E. Holmquist

Howard Holtz & Marilyn Tuft-Holtz

Jim Hopkins

Marlow Hotchkiss

John Howe

Lorie Humphrey

John Hunting

Nadine Jenks

Jesse (David) Jessup & Amber McIntyre

Kelly Kagan

Joshua Kagan

Jenny Kahrl

Lanny Kaufer

Roger Kellaway

Daniel P. & Sheila Kenny

Deborah & Barnett Kiel

Katherine King

Kate A. & William L. Lampe

Frank Lane Italiane

Bonnie Lupien

Nancy Main

Camille Malina

Vance Martin

Elise Marvin

Donna Massman

Philip McGrath

Sarah McKoy & Jess Jones

Janet McMillan

Bonnie Mennell & Paul LeVasseur

Markus Meyer

Weston Milliken

Joy Mills

Bruce Mitchell

Ariel Moody

Patricia Morris

Tricia Morris & Duffy Herman

Victoria Mudd

Maureen Murdock

Jill Murray

Karen Myers

Jack & Elly Nadel

Raymond Neutra

Naomi Newman

Pamela Nichols

Maria Orozco

Rick Paine & Lynnaea Lombard

Elizabeth Paul

Margaretta (Getty) Payson

Anna & Brad Penenberg

Harry Poliak

Jeffrey Price

Kim & John Reynolds

Dennis Rice

Susan Richter

Connie Rodgers-Lantrip & David Lantrip

Linda Rombaut

Tom Rook

Katherine Rosengren

Mary Calder & Howard Rower

Arthur Rozell

Herman & Joan & Jim Rush

Elizabeth Sackler

Diane Sanson

Cedric & Cathy Sarkin

Cheryl Scheer

Patricia Scott

Mark Sherman & Cari Schaefer

Julie Shuer

Roland Silva

Stephen Smith

Bob Sorel & Jill Townsend

John Stoll

Molly Stranahan

Wendy Stretten & Matthew Carlson

Heather Stryzinski

Shawna Swetech

Bonnie & Russ Tamblyn

Amber Rose Tamblyn

Georgia Tanner

Nancy Taylor

Ann & David Tickle

Mel Vandergriff & Linda Newman

Cynthia Vandeveer

A.J.M. Vollering

James Ward

Laura Wasserman

Mary Watkins & Dr. Robert Rosenthal

Michael S. Piper Wyatt

Roya Kory Yazdani

Barbara & Maurice Zilber

Elissa Zimmerman & Tim Pogoler

Eric Zimmerman

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