About Oasis Center
Building relationships that advance youth well-being, amplify youth voice, and inspire action toward a just community.
Focus Areas
Youth developmentCrisis services / Emergency shelterHomelessness prevention and outreachCounseling and behavioral healthCollege & career accessMentoring and leadership programsArts and creative programsLGBTQ+ supports
Who They Fund
teenagers/adolescentsschool-aged youth
Funding Style
direct service/program deliveryprogram-specific support
About Oasis Center
A clear pattern defines Oasis Center Inc: its recent grantmaking repeatedly supports the Teen Outreach Program, with awards tracked across 2023, 2024, and 2025. The foundation’s giving centers on youth well-being and youth voice, and the recent grants show that focus in practical terms through direct service support for adolescents and school-aged youth. Among the recipients, Youth Villages in Nashville received three Teen Outreach Program grants across the three years, while Frontier Health in Gray also appeared more than once in the same program area. That repetition suggests sustained support for a specific service model rather than a one-off project. The foundation’s recent awards also reach multiple Tennessee communities, including Memphis, Cookeville, Greeneville, Knoxville, Gray, and Rockwood, all tied to programming for young people. Alongside youth development, the listed focus areas include crisis services, homelessness prevention and outreach, counseling and behavioral health, college and career access, mentoring and leadership programs, arts and creative programs, and LGBTQ+ supports, giving a broader picture of how Oasis Center Inc frames youth support in practice.
What Oasis Center Funds
Teen outreach is the clearest throughline in Oasis Center Inc’s recent grantmaking. They gave $21,650 to Youth Villages in Nashville for the Teen Outreach Program in 2025, and similar support went to Frontier Health in Gray for the same program. The same program label also appears in grants to Youth Opportunity Investment in Rockwood, showing a consistent emphasis on adolescent outreach and youth engagement. Beyond that core theme, the foundation backed Porter-leath in Memphis for Teen Outreach Program support across 2023, 2024, and 2025, reinforcing a recurring program-specific pattern. The grant list also includes Uchra in Cookeville and Holston Homes in Greeneville, both funded for Teen Outreach Program work, which extends the reach of this model across several Tennessee communities. Across these awards, the common thread is direct service for teenagers and school-aged youth rather than broad unrestricted giving.
How Oasis Center Gives
Oasis Center Inc’s typical grant size clusters tightly around five figures: the 25th percentile is $9,300, the median is $10,000, and the 75th percentile is $17,190. The recent record also shows a band of repeated awards rather than isolated large exceptions. Several recipients appear in multiple years, including Youth Villages, Frontier Health, Youth Opportunity Investment, Porter-leath, Uchra, and Holston Homes, which points to recurring support for the same program structure. The foundation is not listed as funding individuals and does not make program-related investments. Its grants in the provided record are program-specific and short-term/project oriented.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$250K
Total Assets
$8.7M
Total Revenue
$6.6M
Total Expenses
$6.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $9K and $17K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$9K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$17K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 100% of grants go to recipients in TN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
JILL HEYMAN
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