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Defehr Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Defehr Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$171k
Granted FY2018
20
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

7
’17
10
’18
13
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$2.5MArts & Culture$772kHousing & Shelter$46kReligion$39kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$10kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k17 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WEATHERFORD FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTE$4,000
INFINITE GRACE MINISTRIES$4,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$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
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 (FY17–19, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $4k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 16%WEATHERFORD FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTE: $6k → 16%WEATHERFORD FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTE: $4k → 16%WEATHERFORD FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTE: $4k → 16%JUST JOY ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $1k → 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

IL
CO
AZ
AR
NC
OK
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 13 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +246% since the first grant, against -29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$903k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+246%
-29%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • SA
    Stafford Air & Space Museum Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $754k · revenue ×25 · 30% of their budget
  • B1
    Branch 15 Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $34k · revenue +360%
  • WF
    Weatherford Food & Resource Center Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
  • TH
    TREASURE HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -29%
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
Independent Opportunties Inc of Oklahoma

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…

Unclassified
2
Young Womens Christian Association of Oklahoma Ci

Ywca oklahoma city is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all

Human Services
3
The Good Okc

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…

Religion
4
Earc Inc

To provide a better quality of life and greater independence to adults with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
5
Livefree Okc Inc

Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.

Human Services
6
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
7
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
8
Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma Inc

We help people overcome challenges to employment.

Employment
9
La Luz Organization Inc

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.

Human Services
10
It's My Community Initiative Inc

To strengthen communities by building strong, healthy families.

Social Science
11
Oklahoma City University

Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.

Education
12
Aid for Individual Development

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.

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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 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,508,839 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCStafford Air & Space Museum Foundation: $753,500 · Arts & CultureStafford Air & Space Mus…+2 more: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSWOSU FOUNDATION: $31,110 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherINFANT CRISIS CENTER: $11,000 · OtherGIDEONS INTERNATIONAL: $9,723 · OtherOklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc: $6,500 · OtherGreat Plains Family YMCA Inc: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherWEATHERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUND: $4,500 · Other+11 more: $17,200 · OtherBranch 15 Inc: $33,500 · Housing & ShelterBrevard Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterWeatherford Food & Resource Center Inc: $13,700 · Human ServicesSTAND IN THE GAP INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesCITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesJust Joy Activity Center Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesINFINITE GRACE MINISTRIES INC: $11,500 · ReligionHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 · Health
Philanthropy$2,508,839Arts & Culture$765,500Other$132,533Housing & Shelter$44,500Human Services$21,200Religion$11,500Health$4,500

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 budgetOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,508,839 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetStafford Air & Space Museum Foundation: $753,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetBranch 15 Inc: $33,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWeatherford Food & Resource Center Inc: $13,700 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetINFINITE GRACE MINISTRIES INC: $11,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBrevard Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Plains Family YMCA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 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…Tulsa Community Found…Et Cetera Shop IncServant FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK21.5× 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 · 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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    11get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 33 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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