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· Private foundation

Chris and Connie Burnett Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Recreation & Sports$72kHuman Services$50kEducation$43kMembership Benefit$30kReligion$21kHousing & Shelter$8kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$531k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION$10,000
CHRIST THE KING$10,000
CLEATS FOR KIDS$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$5,000
POSITIVE TOMORROWS$2,500
OSU FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $500 → 13%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $6k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$201k · 8 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$201k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+53%

Still filing today

63%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +85%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $43k · revenue +66%
  • OS
    Oklahoma State University Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • WS
    WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +89%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Foundation Inc

To improve school readiness outcomes in oklahoma.

Education
2
The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc

To prevent child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy. the parent child center of tulsa (pcct) has been serving the tulsa community and surrounding areas since 1990. in 2024, pcct served more than 96,000 infants,…

3
Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation Inc

We are the leading advocate for okcps. we strengthen our schools through community investment, strategic partnerships, and innovative programs.

Education
4
New Hope Oklahoma Inc

New hope teaches children of prisoners to become positive, productive, contributing members of society. we do this by providing after school programs, weekend retreats, holiday parties and summer camps to children who have or have had a…

Youth Development
5
Creighton Community Foundation

Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…

Philanthropy
6
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
7
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.

Human Services
8
Citizens Caring for Children

Citizens caring for children breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for oklahoma foster children by addressing their material, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs...because every child deserves the chance for a better life. through…

9
People Helping People

People helping people (php) is dedicated to reducing the number of children living in poverty by teaching low-income women, primarily single moms, how to earn a living wage. each year, 1,000 prospective clients enroll in our employment…

Human Services
10
Mid-Kansas Community Action Program Inc

Mid-kansas community action program assists people in poverty move towards self-reliance through advocacy, education, training and housing in the counties we serve.

Community Improvement
11
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

12
Oklahoma Blood Institute

Oklahoma blood institute's (obi) mission is to be the donor-to-patient lifeline by providing our communities and medical partners security by meeting blood transfusion and health care needs.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $42,920 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA…PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherPI BETA PHI FOUNDATIONCHRIST THE KING — $10,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KINGJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $5,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES — $5,000 · OtherST LUKES — $3,500 · Other+5 more — $7,500 · Other+5 moreCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $70,681 · Human ServicesCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC+2 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesOklahoma State University Foundation — $41,300 · EducationOklahoma State Unive…+1 more — $500 · EducationPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $3,500 · Food & NutritionPOSSIBILITIES INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 · Health
Other$103,920Human Services$78,181Education$41,800Youth Development$7,500Food & Nutrition$3,500Community Improvement$1,000Health$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $70,681 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $42,920 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $41,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSSIBILITIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Chris and Connie Burnett 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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