A Letter from Our Founder, L.R. Fox

Building a Self-Sustaining Future for The Oasis Academy

When I was growing up in foster care, I learned quickly that potential doesn’t guarantee opportunity. As I was building my first companies, I was also designing a vision for a place where kids like me could thrive. That vision became The Oasis Academy.

The Oasis Academy exists to help the world’s most capable children rise to their full potential, no matter where their story began.

We start in Hawaii, where children from around the world, ages 8 to 12, will arrive first to heal, learn, and rediscover trust in themselves and others. When they’re ready, they will transition to one of our mainland campuses focused on career growth. We are establishing those in Los Angeles for creative industries, the Bay Area for technology, and Utah for finance, medicine, and athletics. Each environment is intentional, designed to match both the phase of healing and the pursuit of mastery.

From the beginning, I knew Oasis had to be built with the mindset of a business: sustainability, scalability, and long-term value creation. That is why our funding model stands on four pillars, each designed to build a foundation that endures.

Four Pillars of Partnership

Founders Circle

Our earliest partners who fund operations until campuses are fully active with students. They underwrite the essential work that gets us from vision to reality and often sponsor key fundraising events that bring others into the mission.

Legacy Circle

Those who give one-time or milestone gifts that purchase properties or build new facilities. Every dorm, classroom, and gathering space funded here represents a lasting legacy for generations to come.

In-Kind Support

Businesses and individuals who contribute time, services, or materials, from architects designing learning spaces to local farmers providing food. This group embodies the community spirit of Oasis.

Scholarship Sponsors

Donors who commit annually to fund one or more students, with scholarships that can honor loved ones, focus on specific regions, or remain general. Sponsors can name their scholarships and receive updates on the students whose lives they help transform.

Our Path to Sustainability

In 2026, we will launch the Oasis Endowment Fund, designed to grow steadily over the next decade toward a $100 million goal. With a 10 percent annual return, the endowment will eventually generate enough income to cover the Academy’s ongoing operations, making it financially self-sustaining within ten years.

This is not wishful thinking; it is strategic. Across the United States, university alumni collectively contribute billions each year to the institutions that shaped their lives. Oasis graduates, who will emerge with exceptional earning potential and a deep awareness of how profoundly their lives were changed, are likely to do the same. Their success will not only reflect the Academy’s mission, it will help sustain it. Over time, alumni contributions will flow into the endowment, expanding its reach and ensuring that future generations benefit just as they did.

An Investment in Human Potential

Oasis was never meant to be a charity project. It is an investment in the world’s most valuable and underutilized resource: human potential.

I think often of the girl who dreams of becoming a lawyer after every woman in her family was trafficked in the Philippines. Or the boy from a refugee camp who wants to rebuild the medical systems that failed his community. Who better to solve the problems of this world than the very children who have lived through them?

Oasis exists for them, and through them, for all of us.

Our mission is not only to heal and educate but to prove that with the right structure, compassion can be scalable and philanthropy can be self-sustaining.

By 2035, The Oasis Academy will stand as a global model of what is possible when vision, discipline, and humanity work together.

Thank you for believing in this mission and for helping us build something that lasts forever.

L.R. Fox

Founder and Chairman

The Oasis Academy