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Ad Astra Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $517k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Casady Performing Arts Complex | $516,667 |
| Casady Performing Arts Complex | $150,000 |
| OK Blood Institute | $100,000 |
| University of Central Oklahoma | $40,000 |
| Cimarron Opera | $26,000 |
| Canterbury Voices | $25,000 |
| Painted Sky Opera | $25,000 |
| Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Boy Scouts of American National Fou | $10,000 |
| Oklahoma Zoological Society | $10,000 |
| Last Frontier Council | $10,000 |
| Oklahoma Zoological Society | $7,870 |
| OCCC Foundation | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k 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
- OZOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +143%
- CVCanterbury Voices Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +31%
- PSPAINTED SKY OPERA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +138%
- UOUniversity of Central Oklahoma Founone grant, 2023 · $40k
- FNFLORIDA NATIONAL HIGH ADVENTURE SEA BASEone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
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.
Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.
Provide unique entertainment, innovation education, and economic benefit through presentation of shakespearean plays, other productions and various forms of artistic expression for ages 6-adult.
Support the oklahoma city community foundation through distributions made to the oklahoma city museum of art.
The mission of the organization is to encourage growth in the cultural climate of oklahoma through the production of classical theatrical productions in unique venues at a reasonable admission price.
Support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the oklahoma philharmonic.
The oklahoma philharmonic society, inc. exists to provide inspiration and joy for the community through orchestral music programming. our vision is to enhance the cultural life of the community, educate future generations, entertain our…
Tulsa opera, inc. operates in the state of oklahoma for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciation of music, particularly opera, for the general public, including mainstage productions. in addition to these productions, tulsa opera…
To share the experience of chamber music through live performance and community engagement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 96 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 OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Canterbury Voices Inc ↗
- Who funds PAINTED SKY OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTMUSIC SOCIETY OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 480 LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA REPERTORY THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
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 · 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
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 Ad Astra 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Canterbury Voices Inc — 6% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University — 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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