· Private foundation
Aaron & Gertrude Karchmer Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SSM ST MARY'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL CARE | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $7,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL | $3,600 |
| JIMMY EVEREST CENTER | $1,980 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,800 |
| ALLIED ARTS | $1,800 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC | $1,800 |
| DOWNTOWN OKLAHOMA CITY INITIATIVES INC | $1,800 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF OKC | $1,378 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA | $1,000 |
| MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| EAST END HOSPICE INC | $500 |
| ALL SOULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $500 |
| OKLAHOMA ISRAEL EXCHANGE INC | $360 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $334k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SCSPECIAL CARE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $180k · revenue +106%
- CCCITY CARE INC4× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +82%
- MGMYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- DMDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +117%
- TBTEMPLE BNAI ISRAELone grant, 2023 · $20k
- AIAmerican Indian Cultural Center FNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
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.
To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
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.
Provides education and certification programs for independent insurance agents
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…
Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.
Osma's vision is to be the leading voice in health care for oklahoma's patients, families and physicians. osma's mission is better health for oklahoma.
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 CITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maccabim Hebrew School ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds Drug Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds OPRY HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Aaron & Gertrude Karchmer Memorial Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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