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Aaron & Gertrude Karchmer Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$640kArts & Culture$189kPhilanthropy$87kEducation$67kHuman Services$59kEmployment$59kRecreation & Sports$51kEnvironment$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$6,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$593k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST AMERICAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION$20,000
SPECIAL CARE$10,000
HARDING FINE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION$10,000
HILLEL FOUNDATION$10,000
OKLAHOMA ISRAEL EXCHANGE INC$7,200
JEWISH FEDERATION OF OKC$6,800
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS$6,500
LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL$3,600
DOWNTOWN OKLAHOMA CITY INITIATIVES INC$1,800
ALLIED ARTS$1,800
KARIS ADOPTION FUND$1,000
TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $500 → 7%Red Dirt Relief Fund: $3k → 15%City Care: $10k → 16%DEAN A MCGEE EYE INSTITUE FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%Calm Waters: $1k → 16%City Care: $20k → 16%CITY CARE: $10k → 16%City Care: $10k → 16%FIRST AMERICAN MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%Special Care: $150k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $10k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $10k → 16%Special Care: $10k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CA
CO
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$847k · 36 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
49

Total granted

$847k
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

42%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SPECIAL CARE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +106%
  • CC
    CITY CARE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +82%
  • MG
    MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • DM
    DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +117%
  • AI
    American Indian Cultural Center FND
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BNAI ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.

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2
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture
4
Oklahoma Arts Institute Foundation

To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.

Arts & Culture
5
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Osteopathic Founders Foundation

The mission of the osteopathic founders foundation is to support osteopathic medical education, to enhance the public's understanding of osteopathic medicine, and to improve the health of the community through projects consistent with the…

Health
7
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc

Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.

Arts & Culture
8
Oklahoma Optometric Association

The oklahoma association of optometric physicians is a professional association dedicated to advocacy, education, and other resources for oklahoma optometric physicians. mission statement: unite. empower. advocate.

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9
Oklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum

The mission of the oklahoma city museum of art is to enrich lives through the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Oklahoma Association of Insurance Agents

Provides education and certification programs for independent insurance agents

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11
Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc

To provide exceptional multidisciplinary arts experiences that develop individual talent and inspire a lifelong passion for the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
Oklahoma City Art Museum Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

Support the oklahoma city community foundation through distributions made to the oklahoma city museum of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma Israel Exchange Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MY POSSIBILITIES: $50,000 · OtherMY POSSIBILITIESAmerican Indiam Cultural Center: $40,000 · OtherAmerican Indiam Cultural CenterJewish Federation of Greater OKC: $35,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater OKCOKC Boathouse FDN: $29,099 · OtherOKC Boathouse FDNOK Contemporary Arts Ctr: $26,800 · OtherHabitat For Humanity: $25,500 · OtherAmerican Indian Cultural Center FND: $20,000 · OtherTEMPLE BNAI ISRAEL: $20,000 · OtherFIRST AMERICAN MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherSSM ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $19,000 · OtherMYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION: $26,600 · Other+53 more: $204,296 · Other+53 moreSPECIAL CARE INC: $190,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL CARE INCDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUN…CITY CARE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCITY CARE INCFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDA…+3 more: $4,200 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $210,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE: $101,000 · HealthDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE+4 more: $24,599 · Health+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $43,500 · EducationOklahoma Israel Exchange Inc: $7,560 · EducationALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $12,400 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,400 · Arts & CultureOPRY HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA SENIOR FOLLIES INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $180 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $18,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $7,300 · PhilanthropyTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 · PhilanthropyMaccabim Hebrew School: $21,800 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $10,000 · Religion
Other$536,295Human Services$364,200Health$335,599Education$51,060Arts & Culture$36,980Philanthropy$34,100Religion$31,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL CARE INC: $190,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE: $101,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY CARE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $43,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION: $26,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMaccabim Hebrew School: $21,800 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $12,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHarding Fine Arts Academy Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,999 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOklahoma Israel Exchange Inc: $7,560 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $7,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA SENIOR FOLLIES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN OKLAHOMA CITY INITIATIVES INC: $3,600 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 480 LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED DIRT RELIEF FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY BEAUTIFUL INC: $2,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJIM THORPE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
  • Who funds CITY CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Maccabim Hebrew School ↗
  • Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Drug Recovery Inc ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Harding Fine Arts Academy Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds THE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Israel Exchange Inc ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Fidelity Fou…El and Thelma Gaylord…Inasmuch FoundationOklahoma City Communi…Fred Jones Family Fou…Communities Foundatio…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Records Johnston Fami…Vose Foundation IncRainbolt Family Found…Bowen FoundationCresap Family Foundat…
American Fidelity FoundationOK46.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Fidelity Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Records Johnston Family Foundation · Vose Foundation Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aaron & Gertrude Karchmer Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aaron & Gertrude Karchmer Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Dean Mcgee Eye Institute: 1% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Special Care Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Aaron & Gertrude Karchmer Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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