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Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc

The organizations mission is to enrich the communities within central oklahoma through the advancement of the arts by being the driving force for the arts in oklahomas dynamic growth.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$431k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$22MYouth Development$58kEducation$29k
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $3,084,405, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,193,899 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $109,494 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $436k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$49,770
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKC MUSEUM OF ART$430,820
OKC PHILHARMONIC$382,830
SCIENCE MUSEUM OK$350,330
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER$336,390
OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET$244,020
LYRIC THEATRE$213,360
ARTS COUNCIL OF OKC$202,750
DEADCENTER$74,320
MABEE-GERRER ART MUSEUM$70,000
NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM$68,140
OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S THEATRE$58,640
CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY$56,590
OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRA$55,500
RED EARTH$54,717
OK SHAKESPEAR IN THE PARK$50,080
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%LYRIC THEATRE: $247k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $245k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $244k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $239k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $221k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $215k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $213k → 16%LYRIC THEATRE: $211k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $431k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $383k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $376k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $366k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $363k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $359k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $359k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $358k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $357k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $355k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $354k → 16%OKC PHILHARMONIC: $354k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $353k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $352k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $351k → 16%OKC MUSEUM OF ART: $350k → 16%ARTS COUNCIL OF OKC: $203k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART: $208k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $244k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $244k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $241k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $238k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $235k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $234k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $233k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET: $229k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $336k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $284k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $255k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $234k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $229k → 16%OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $228k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $374k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $357k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $350k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $350k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $350k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $348k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $348k → 16%SCIENCE MUSEUM OK: $345k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 38 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
5

Total granted

$22M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

95%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +49%
  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +42%
  • OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • FA
    FINE ARTS INSTITUTE OF EDMOND
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -12%
  • SP
    Scissortail Productions Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • OI
    OKC Improv Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +15%
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
Enid Community Theatre Inc

To provide a wide spectrum of high quality theatrical entertainment to a broad audience in Enid and the surrounding communities, and to provide a setting for nonprofessional actors, directors, designers, and technicians to learn and…

Arts & Culture
2
Factory Street Studio & Moving Parts Inc

Dance & movement performance

Arts & Culture
3
Ballet Oklahoma Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Norman Ballet Company Inc

Provide live performance opportunities for dance students.

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5
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
Opera Kansas

Opera Kansas expands access to opera across the state with bold performances and mindful education, delivered in partnership with communities.

Arts & Culture
7
Central Oklahoma Dance Company

Central oklahoma dance company (codc) is a holistic, professional, community-oriented, recreational and professional ballet company and educational academy that offers dance instruction, professional performance opportunities, and creative…

Arts & Culture
8
Metro Youth Theatre of Oklahoma

Youth Arts Education

Arts & Culture
9
On Stage Woodward

To bring quality live performances to the northwest region of oklahoma

—
10
Namron Players Theatre Incorporated Dba Oklahoma Storyworks

Namron Players Theatre dba Oklahoma StoryWorks provides our community with mature modern theatre, utilizing the talents of playwrights, actors, and theatre artists from within Norman and from around the state of Oklahoma. OKSW is an arts…

Arts & Culture
11
World Stage Theater Company

Theatre Arts and Theatre Arts Education

Arts & Culture
12
Oklahoma Community Orchestra Inc

The Oklahoma Community Orchestra performs five to six orchestral concerts throughout the Oklahoma City area during each year at a nominal cost to the public.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Youth Orchestras Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Liberated Arts Center 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

45 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $2,930,588 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUMOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $2,890,388 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INCSCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INC: $2,822,661 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INCOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $1,950,428 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INCBALLET OKLAHOMA INC: $1,897,718 · Arts & CultureBALLET OKLAHOMA INCLYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $1,834,854 · Arts & CultureLYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INCARTS COUNCIL OF OKLAHOMA CITY: $1,449,172 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF OKLAHOMA CITY+31 more: $4,498,252 · Arts & Culture+31 moreNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $561,642 · OtherOKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $447,805 · OtherMetropolitan School of Dance Inc: $221,434 · Other+3 more: $90,850 · OtherKIDSALIVE INC: $32,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$20,274,061Other$1,321,731Youth Development$32,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $2,930,588 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $2,890,388 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INC: $2,822,661 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $1,950,428 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBALLET OKLAHOMA INC: $1,897,718 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetLYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $1,834,854 over 8y, 11% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF OKLAHOMA CITY: $1,449,172 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetCanterbury Voices Inc: $563,471 over 8y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $561,642 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMABEE-GERRER MUSEUM: $525,151 over 8y, 22% of budgetOKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $447,805 over 8y, 12% of budgetDEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC: $434,996 over 8y, 13% of budgetOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: $406,207 over 8y, 13% of budgetOKLAHOMA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK INC: $291,844 over 8y, 12% of budgetSooner Theatre of Norman Inc: $290,573 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetOPRY HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $250,611 over 8y, 13% of budgetNORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC: $249,334 over 8y, 11% of budgetRED EARTH INC: $244,709 over 8y, 17% of budgetOKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: $243,448 over 8y, 11% of budgetMetropolitan School of Dance Inc: $221,434 over 8y, 42% of budgetCIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANY: $188,802 over 8y, 56% of budgetPrairie Dance Theatre Inc: $173,838 over 8y, 31% of budgetCARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC: $165,777 over 8y, 12% of budgetPAINTED SKY OPERA INC: $67,600 over 4y, 12% of budgetEL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA INC: $49,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $46,010 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRACE Dance Company: $45,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetPaseo Artists Association: $35,550 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL OK CITY: $32,939 over 5y, 20% of budgetKIDSALIVE INC: $32,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetBlack Liberated Arts Center Inc: $30,505 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetASPIRING ATTITUDES INC: $30,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetLIFE CHANGE ACADEMY INC: $26,218 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE AMBASSADORS CONCERT CHOIR INC: $24,150 over 2y, 26% of budgetNORMAN ARTS COUNCIL: $23,847 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA REPERTORY THEATRE GROUP INC: $23,750 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNTITLED ART SPACE INC: $23,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $20,099 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFINE ARTS INSTITUTE OF EDMOND: $8,996 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetScissortail Productions Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOKC Improv Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION: $6,134 over 1y, 2.3% 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 OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
  • Who funds Canterbury Voices Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds Sooner Theatre of Norman Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPRY HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RED EARTH INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan School of Dance Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Prairie Dance Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PAINTED SKY OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds EL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds RACE Dance Company ↗
  • Who funds Paseo Artists Association ↗
  • Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL OK CITY ↗
  • Who funds KIDSALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Liberated Arts Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRING ATTITUDES INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY GIRLS ART SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LIFE CHANGE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMBASSADORS CONCERT CHOIR INC ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA REPERTORY THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds UNTITLED ART SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds PERPETUAL MOTION MODERN DANCE 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.

Oklahoma City Communi…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Kirkpatrick Family Af…American Fidelity Fou…Communities Foundatio…Ad Astra FoundationRural Oklahoma Commun…Rainbolt Family Found…El and Thelma Gaylord…The Kerr Foundation I…Oklahoma Humanities C…Cresap Family Foundat…
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK52.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Ad Astra Foundation · Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation Inc an Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · The Kerr Foundation Inc · Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc · 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 Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Canterbury Voices Inc: 6% of income from government
  • El Sistema Oklahoma Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 45 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 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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