The Oasis Foundation

The Oasis Foundation is a closed, family-run private foundation with no public application infrastructure: the record shows no grants page, no application form, no published deadline, and application_instructions on file simply read "none." It is run by unpaid officers — Rose Huang (President) and Wells Huang (Vice President), with Greta Chang handling correspondence as Treasurer/contact (PO Box 527077, Flushing, NY 11352-7077) — who by public filings report only about four hours of service annually. That is the single most important fact for any prospective applicant: this is a preselected, relationship-driven giving vehicle, not a competitive grants program, and cold digital outreach has essentially no documented precedent of success.

The grantee history bears this out. Of 47 tracked grants totaling $639,000, three organizations — Lift Up the Vulnerable ($185,000 across 4 grants), Garden of Hope Inc. ($156,000 across 3 grants), and Korean Community Services ($116,000 across 4 grants) — account for 71% of all documented dollars. Another half-dozen recipients (Youth Orchestra CYCNY, Vaughn College's Broschart Memorial Scholarship, Tzu-Chi Foundation, Intl Buddhist Progress Society) also received repeat, multi-year gifts. This pattern signals a foundation that finds a handful of trusted organizations and stays with them for years rather than continually seeking new grantees — good news for an org that secures an initial small gift, but a real barrier for a first-time, unconnected applicant.

The favored organization type is narrow and specific: frontline human-services nonprofits serving Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean immigrant communities in Queens/NYC (especially domestic-violence, trafficking, and vulnerable-family services), Buddhist and Taiwanese Christian congregations, youth arts and classical-music education, and one long-running named college scholarship. Ninety-six percent of grant dollars stay in New York, with small legacy footholds in Massachusetts and California that track sister chapters of the same organizations (Buddhist temples, Taiwanese churches) rather than a deliberate multi-state strategy. First-time applicants without a genuine tie to this Flushing/Queens Asian-American community and faith network should treat this as a low-probability, long-horizon relationship-building target rather than a proposal to draft this quarter.

Across 47 tracked grants, The Oasis Foundation has distributed $639,000 at an average of $13,596 per grant; the foundation's own typical-grant-size data lists a $5,000-$50,000 range with a $10,000 median. Individual gifts have run as small as $1,000 (New Apostolic Church of NA) and as large as $65,000 (Lift Up the Vulnerable, FY2024). By state, New York captured 39 of 47 grants (83%), Massachusetts 4 (9%), and California 2 (4%).

Concentration is high: Lift Up the Vulnerable ($185,000/29% of tracked dollars), Garden of Hope Inc. ($156,000/24%), and Korean Community Services ($116,000/18%) together account for 71% of all documented giving, while roughly 30 other organizations split the remaining $182,000 in grants mostly at the $5,000-$16,000 level (churches, Buddhist and Taiwanese cultural groups, youth arts programs, one scholarship fund). A sampled Form 990-PF program breakdown shows $110,000 split across four lines — Garden of Hope ($50,000, 45%), Tzu Chi Foundation ($40,000, 36%), Silver Lining Mission ($10,000, 9%), and Lift Up the Vulnerable ($10,000, 9%) — underscoring that anti-trafficking/domestic-violence services and Buddhist community programs are the two largest identifiable program lines.

Total annual giving has climbed steadily and recently accelerated: $114,498 (2021) → $176,587 (2022) → $177,720 (2023) → roughly $244,000 across just 12 grants (FY2024, averaging $20,000 per grant — nearly double the historical average) → $288,500 in charitable disbursements (FY2025). That FY2025 figure exceeded the foundation's $167,057 in total revenue for the year, producing a net loss of $125,191 — the foundation spent down principal rather than granting only investment returns, a notable break from its historical pattern. Total assets have hovered in a narrow band, from $1.94M (2019) after a $700,000 contribution, up to $3.67M (2023), settling at $3.51M as of the most recent filing on record; there have been no new outside contributions reported since the 2019-2020 gifts. With income sourced entirely from interest and dividends and a legal minimum distribution requirement near $182,000/year, the foundation is now giving well above the IRS payout floor.

The Oasis Foundation sits at the small end of the family-foundation spectrum: a roughly $3.5M endowment funding under $300,000 in annual giving through an entirely closed, unpublished process. No peer set was pre-matched in the data bundle, so the comparison below uses two similarly structured New York family foundations identified through 990 research, plus an industry benchmark for foundations of this size.

Oasis's giving rate — roughly 8% of assets in FY2025 — runs well above both the legal 5% minimum and the estimated payout of comparably sized peers, consistent with a foundation intentionally accelerating distributions rather than preserving corpus. Where Zhou and Mai are larger or smaller variations on the same closed, family-run model with education and general human-services framing, Oasis is distinguished by its narrow, ethnically and religiously specific grantee base (Chinese/Taiwanese/Korean immigrant services, Buddhist temples, Taiwanese churches) concentrated almost entirely in Queens, NY.

No foundation-specific press, announcements, or social media activity could be identified for The Oasis Foundation of Flushing, NY for 2025-2026; general searches for the name return unrelated organizations (a Memphis, TN health and wellness nonprofit that happens to occupy the theoasisfoundation.org domain, a UK leadership-development charity, a Nigerian foundation, and a blockchain project also branded "Oasis Foundation"). Notably, the website URL on file for this foundation (theoasisfoundation.org) actually belongs to that unrelated Memphis wellness organization, not to this Flushing, NY grantmaking foundation — there is no confirmed public website for this specific 501(c)(3).

The most concrete recent activity comes from the foundation's own Form 990-PF filings. FY2024 shows a shift to fewer, larger grants: 12 total awards averaging $20,000, led by Lift Up the Vulnerable ($65,000), Garden of Hope Inc. ($51,000), and Korean Community Services ($37,750) — together 62% of that year's giving. FY2025 (the most recent filing referenced in third-party 990 aggregation) shows charitable disbursements of $288,500 against just $167,057 in investment income, a net loss of $125,191 for the year and the largest single-year giving total in the foundation's tracked history. Leadership has remained stable and unpaid: Rose Huang (President), Wells Huang (Vice President), and Greta Chang handling treasurer/contact duties, with no reported officer compensation in any year on file.

There is no formal application to optimize — application_form_url, grants_page_url, and opportunities_url are all unpublished, and the foundation's own instructions field reads "none." Practical guidance therefore centers on how to get noticed by a closed, relationship-based funder rather than how to fill out a form:

• Lead with community and cause fit, not a generic appeal. Every dollar-documented grantee falls into one of four buckets: (1) services for Chinese/Taiwanese/Korean immigrant communities in Queens/NYC, especially domestic violence, trafficking, and vulnerable-family support (Garden of Hope, Lift Up the Vulnerable); (2) Buddhist temples and charitable networks (Tzu-Chi Foundation, Intl Buddhist Progress Society, Fundacao Filhos De Buda); (3) Taiwanese Christian congregations (Long Island Taiwanese Church, Westchester Taiwanese Church, Queens Taiwanese Evangelical Church, Flushing Union Bible Church); and (4) youth classical arts/music education (Youth Orchestra CYCNY, Contemporary Arts International, Queens Symphony Orchestra) plus one standing named scholarship at Vaughn College. Organizations outside these lanes have essentially no track record here.
• Correspond by mail, not the web. No contact email is on file; the only address of record is PO Box 527077, Flushing, NY 11352-7077, attention Greta Chang.
• Size the ask to precedent. Median historical grant is $10,000; the great majority fall between $5,000 and $20,000. Even the largest documented single gift ($65,000, FY2024) is well below what a mid-size funder might consider — do not open with a six-figure request.
• Find a warm connector. Given the officers' minimal reported time commitment (about four hours a year), a referral from an existing grantee, a Flushing/Queens Asian-American nonprofit network, or a shared congregation/temple is far more likely to get a letter read than an unsolicited proposal.
• Keep any written approach short. A one-to-two-page letter of inquiry describing the population served, the specific need, and a modest dollar request is more appropriate than a full grant proposal packet, given the informal, low-staff review process implied by the filings.
• Expect a multi-year arc, not a single ask. Several top grantees (Lift Up the Vulnerable, Garden of Hope, Korean Community Services, Youth Orchestra CYCNY, Vaughn College) received 3-4 separate grants over time, suggesting the foundation tests a relationship with a smaller first gift before scaling up. A common mistake would be treating this as a one-time transactional funder rather than a long-term relationship to cultivate.
• Time outreach to the calendar year. Filings are calendar-year based with no published deadline; a Q3/Q4 approach for consideration in the following year's giving is a reasonable default given the annual disbursement pattern.