Oklahoma · Private foundation
Ad Astra Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $333k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Ad Astra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $333k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $600k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $555k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $370k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $469k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casady School | $187,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Canterbury Voices Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Painted Sky Opera Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Oklahoma Zoological Society | $120,170 | 3 | 2% |
| Cimarron Circuit Opera Company | $104,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $81,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Oklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum | $81,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma | $60,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ad Astra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Fidelity Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ad Astra Foundation
- How much does Ad Astra Foundation give?
- Ad Astra Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $332,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ad Astra Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (14%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Ad Astra Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Casady School ($187k), Canterbury Voices Inc ($140k), Painted Sky Opera Inc ($125k).
- Does Ad Astra Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ad Astra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ad Astra Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Fidelity Foundation, Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation.
- Where is Ad Astra Foundation based?
- Ad Astra Foundation is based in OK.
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