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American Fidelity 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 $10k155 grants · $519k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $856k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $473k
- $250k+2 grants · $532k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| North OKC Soccer Club Inc | $275,000 |
| United Way of Central Oklahoma | $257,000 |
| American Red Cross | $111,925 |
| Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma | $80,054 |
| American Academy in Rome | $76,098 |
| Allied Arts Foundation | $74,150 |
| Oklahoma City University | $67,945 |
| RIVERSPORT Foundation | $63,237 |
| OU Foundation | $49,100 |
| Scissortail Park Foundation | $45,000 |
| Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation | $44,760 |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | $43,760 |
| Oklahoma State Fair | $42,500 |
| Oklahoma Hall of Fame | $30,100 |
| The NEA Foundation | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $828k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
258 repeat relationships — 176 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 26 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME5× · 2020–2024 · $376k · revenue +57%
- NONORTH OKC SOCCER CLUB INC5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +291% · 48% of their budget
- AAALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $347k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATON OKCone grant, 2021 · $161k
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKCone grant, 2020 · $42k
- LTLYRIC THEATREone grant, 2020 · $13k
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 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 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 tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The dean mcgee eye institute is dedicated to serving all oklahomans and the global community through excellence and leadership in patient care, education and vision research.
The Opportunity Scholarship Fund is a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to Oklahoma prek-12 students to attend accredited private schools in our state. Once a student has received a scholarship, that student and…
To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.
Oklahoma policy advances equitable and fiscally responsible policies that expand opportunity for all oklahomans through nonpartisan research, analysis, and advocacy.
The oklahoma bar foundation provides annual funding through grants to promote the advancement of justice, to provide critical civil legal services to those in need, and to increase public awareness and understanding of the american legal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Scratch Masters Tour. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
299 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. 299 of the 436 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds NORTH OKC SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Canterbury Voices Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Engineering Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Variety Care Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation 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: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Harris Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Cresap Family Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family Foundation · The Merrick 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 American Fidelity 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.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Canterbury Voices Inc — 6% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 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
- Oklahoma Christian University — 0% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma 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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