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Carmichael Foundation at a glance

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Carmichael 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.

$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$235kFood & Nutrition$80kAnimals$79kHealth$72kPhilanthropy$40kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$25kPublic Benefit$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA$10,000
PARENT PROMISE$10,000
OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE CENTER OF EDMOND$8,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$5,000
STEPHEN STILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
PEPPERS RANCH$5,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$5,000
FREE TO LIVE INC$5,000
THE CHILDRENS CENTER INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FUREVER FRIENDS FUND$5,000
NEADS$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF OKC$5,000
OKLAHOMA MUSUEMS ASSOCIATIONS$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEADS: $5k → 11%THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%FRIENDS FOR FOLKS INC: $5k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 15%NEADS: $5k → 11%THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%FRIENDS FOR FOLKS INC: $2k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 15%NEADS: $5k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 15%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%PIVOT: $2k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $5k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $5k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $5k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $5k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $5k → 16%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
OK
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$551k · 28 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
6

Total granted

$551k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+49%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • EC
    EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +145%
  • EM
    EDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • YA
    Young America's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +49%
  • PI
    PAY IT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC30 DAY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PF
    PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +38%
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
PAUSE4PAWS Inc

Pause4Paws promotes access to healthcare for pet owners in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, metro area impacted by homelessness, mental illness, or addiction who need inpatient treatment but have no one to care for their pets.

Health
2
Tulsa Spca

The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.

Animals
3
Animal Rescue Foundation Inc

Animal rescue foundation inc (arf) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. we do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…

Animals
4
Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health
5
The Pet Food Pantry of Oklahoma City Inc

Reduce hunger in pets by providing free pet food and pet services to low income pet owners enabling them to keep their companion animal(s) with them. this includes providing routine vaccinations, spaying/neutering, pet supplies and shelter…

Animals
6
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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7
Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services
8
Operation Kindness

Our mission is to create a kinder world for pets and the people who love them by providing lifesaving care, innovative programs, and community resources.

Animals
9
Pug Rescue Owasso

Pug Rescue Owasso mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, homeless, unwanted , sick and injured pugs. we rehabilitate them medically and emotionally and place them into homes

Animals
10
Angels Foster Family Network Okc Inc

The angels mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, and neglected young children, match them with a select group of foster parents, and ensure the maximum emotional, social, and intellectual development of each child.

Human Services
11
Animal Aid of Tulsa Inc

Animal Aid is a private welfare organization dedicated to saving sick or injured stray dogs and cats, helping pets find loving homes, helping reunite lost and found pets with their owners and encouraging respect and awareness for the…

Animals
12
Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc

The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Furever Friends. 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC: $28,000 · OtherEDMOND MOBILE MEALS INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF OKC: $25,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF OKCOKLAHOMA MUSUEMS ASSOCIATIONS: $25,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA MUSUEMS ASSOCIATIONSFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCPAWS FOR LIFE INC: $20,000 · OtherPAWS FOR LIFE INCSMILE TRAIN INC: $15,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $25,000 · OtherPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INCSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $33,000 · Other+8 moreHOPE CENTER OF EDMOND INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOPE CENTER OF EDMOND INCINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INCPEPPERS RANCH INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPEPPERS RANCH INCNEADS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA I…ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR …TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $9,000 · Human ServicesTULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPOR…FRIENDS FOR FOLKS INC: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Center Inc: $25,000 · HealthThe Child…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 · HealthST JUDE C…The Fistula Foundation: $9,000 · HealthThe Fistu…Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $6,000 · HealthOklahoma …REBOOT RECOVERY INC: $2,000 · HealthFREE TO LIVE INC: $25,000 · AnimalsFREE TO L…FUREVER FRIENDS: $15,000 · AnimalsFUREVER F…THE BELLA FOUNDATION INC SPCA: $12,000 · AnimalsTHE BELLA…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL …EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalEXCHANGE …COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $25,000 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$222,000Human Services$155,000Health$53,000Animals$52,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Philanthropy$35,000

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 budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE CENTER OF EDMOND INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC: $28,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREE TO LIVE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPEPPERS RANCH INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEADS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUREVER FRIENDS: $15,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELLA FOUNDATION INC SPCA: $12,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS FOR FOLKS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBOOT RECOVERY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPIVOT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Oklahoma City Communi…Harris Foundation IncThe Magnolia Charitab…American Fidelity Fou…The Anne and Henry Za…Communities Foundatio…Arvest FoundationFred Jones Family Fou…Bowen FoundationEl and Thelma Gaylord…Sarkeys FoundationMcLaughlin Family Fou…
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · McLaughlin 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 Carmichael Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carmichael Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Carmichael Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carmichael 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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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