· Private foundation
Allen Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,007,550 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| ASTROS FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| ENID HIGHER EDUCATION COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF ENID | $5,000 |
| OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- ESEnid Sports Association5× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +256% · 36% of their budget
- AFASTROS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $462k · revenue +405%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ENID AND NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $127k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- CSCherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +48%
- SWSoldier's Wishone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -57%
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -44%
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 State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
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.
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…
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
The Foundation's primary purpose is to provide resources and to seek external support for scholarships, faculty development, equipment, and campus projects, which support Eastern Oklahoma State College, a community college in Southeast…
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
Seg foundation advances geophysics today and inspires geoscientists for tomorrow through funding innovative activities and grant programs that benefit geophysicists, their professional community and the society of exploration geophysicists…
The mission of the oklahoma school of science and mathematics foundation is to foster excellence in k-12 science and mathematics education throughout oklahoma by supporting the school's outreach projects, programs, development, students,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 78 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 Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Enid Sports Association ↗
- Who funds ASTROS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Soldier's Wish ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ENID AND NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENID HIGHER EDUCATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds Cherokee Strip Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE OKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES OF NW OKLA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds E FOUNDATION FOR OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
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: Harris Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Merrick Foundation · McLaughlin Family Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Dillingham Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · Love Meyer 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 Allen Family Charitable 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.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Community Development Support Associatio — 2% of income from government
- Landmark College Inc — 1% 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.