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Bancfirst Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bancfirst Charitable 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$426kPublic Benefit$200kEducation$50kRecreation & Sports$45kFood & Nutrition$34kYouth Development$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$855k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER$13,000
OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S THEATRE$11,000
OKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER FDN: $89k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$604k · 11 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$604k
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+47%

Still filing today

55%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OA
    OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +42%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM
    3× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +35%
  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $89k · revenue ×17
  • REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue +47%
  • SC
    Southwest Covenant Schools Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +51%
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
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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3
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture
4
Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association

The OSSAA will serve member schools by providing leadership in the development, supervision, and conduct of co-curricular activities, which enrich the educational experiences of high school students. It will provide for equitable…

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5
Oklahoma Academy for State Goals

To provide information to citizens. The organization encourages the utilization and developement of the State of Oklahomas resourses.

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6
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Cowboy Hall of Fame Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

To support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the national cowboy and western heritage museum.

Arts & Culture
8
Ok Foundation

Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.

Philanthropy
9
Oklahoma Arts Institute Foundation

To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.

Arts & Culture
10
Oklahoma Connections Academy Inc

Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.

Education
11
Oklahoma Policy Inc

Oklahoma policy advances equitable and fiscally responsible policies that expand opportunity for all oklahomans through nonpartisan research, analysis, and advocacy.

Civil Rights
12
Will Rogers Memorial Foundation

Support Will Rogers Memorial Museums

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Covenant Schools 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

E FOUNDATION FOR OKLAHOMA INC: $200,000 · OtherE FOUNDATION FOR OKLAHOMA INCOKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER: $102,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTERNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUMOKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $46,100 · OtherOKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INCOklahoma City All Sports Association In: $45,000 · OtherOklahoma City All Sports Association InOKLAHOMA'S CHILDRENS THEATER: $27,000 · Other+4 more: $45,000 · Other+4 moreOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA ART…Woodie Guthrie Coalition Inc: $10,500 · Arts & CultureWoodie Guthr…FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $88,500 · Human ServicesFIRST AMERIC…Southwest Covenant Schools Inc: $25,000 · EducationOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $24,665 · EducationREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $34,000 · Food & NutritionGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Youth Development
Other$525,100Arts & Culture$90,500Human Services$88,500Education$49,665Food & Nutrition$34,000Youth Development$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetE FOUNDATION FOR OKLAHOMA INC: $200,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $88,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $46,100 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOklahoma City All Sports Association In: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Covenant Schools Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $24,665 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPreservation Oklahoma Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…Cresap Family Foundat…American Fidelity Fou…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Inasmuch FoundationOklahoma City Communi…El and Thelma Gaylord…Arvest FoundationOklahoma Humanities C…Rainbolt Family Found…Oge Energy Corp Found…Kirkpatrick Family Af…
Communities Foundation of OklahomaOK19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Cresap Family Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

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 Bancfirst Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bancfirst Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • First Americans Museum Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bancfirst Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bancfirst Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 18 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-PF 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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