· Private foundation
Defehr Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Defehr Family Foundation Inc’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Defehr Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $171k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k17 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAFFORD AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| SWOSU FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| BRANCH 15 | $10,000 |
| OKC IMPROV FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| INFINITE GRACE MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| WEATHERFORD FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTE | $4,000 |
| OETA FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| INFANT CRISIS CENTER | $3,500 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $3,435 |
| BREVARD RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| CITY RESCUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +246% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- SAStafford Air & Space Museum Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $754k · revenue ×25 · 30% of their budget
- B1Branch 15 Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $34k · revenue +360%
- WFWeatherford Food & Resource Center Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $28k
- THTREASURE HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -29%
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.
Provide the highest quality residential services to people with developmental disabilities. a major part of the mission is to provide opportunities to these individuals based upon their right to a normal daily routine. specifically, it is…
Ywca oklahoma city is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all
The Good OKC was created to equip and empower the people of OKC to experience the Kingdom of God in the everyday lives. Far too often we seperate our spiritual lives from our actual life. We believe following Jesus is a 24/7 endeavor and…
To provide a better quality of life and greater independence to adults with developmental disabilities.
Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.
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.
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…
We help people overcome challenges to employment.
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
To strengthen communities by building strong, healthy families.
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
To provide residential service for the developmentally disabled. to teach the residents daily living skills so with necessary training the residents can obtain the ultimate goal of being independent and having their own apartment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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
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 OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Stafford Air & Space Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Branch 15 Inc ↗
- Who funds Weatherford Food & Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INFINITE GRACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Brevard Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds OKC Improv Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OETA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Just Joy Activity Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL 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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Et Cetera Shop Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Defehr Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.