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Dexter G Johnson Educational & Benevolent Trust at a glance

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Dexter G Johnson Educational & Benevolent Trust

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.

$334k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$940kEducation$786kHuman Services$97k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$43,000
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY$43,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$43,000
NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC$30,000
VARIETY CARE INC$30,000
A SMILE FOR A CHILD FOUNDATION$30,000
HEARTS FOR HEARING$30,000
GRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC$30,000
WOVENLIFE$25,000
HAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
LIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY22–24, $237k) 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%HAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER: $20k → 15%HAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER: $15k → 15%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $60k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $30k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $30k → 16%WOVENLIFE: $25k → 16%WOVENLIFE: $15k → 16%WOVENLIFE: $12k → 16%SPECIAL CARE INC: $30k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
28

Total granted

$1.5M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+57%

Still filing today

83%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $262k · revenue +38%
  • VC
    Variety Care Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +88%
  • Hearts for Hearing Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • N
    NEWVIEW
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • TC
    The Children's Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +57%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
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
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
2
Center for Hearing and Communication

Provide high-quality, comprehensive services to empower people affected by hearing loss, deafness or listening challenges.

—
3
The Childhood Language Center At Richmond Inc

The mission of the scottish rite childhood language center is to provide, speech, language, and hearing services with fees based on the family's ability to pay.

—
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
6
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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7
Kids Home Care Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…

Health
8
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
9
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Capability Health & Human Services

Capability health and human services is dedicated to providing transformational and life enhancing services to children and adults with disabilities facing a physical, mental, or social limitation.

Human Services
11
El Paso Children's Hospital Corporation

To provide compassionate, coordinated, family-centered care for children with a dedicated commitment to excellent patient outcomes, inclusive leadership and innovative pediatric research and education.

Health
12
Helping Hand Center

Transforming lives of all connected to helping hand through genuine care and education so people with intellectual/developmental disabilities are equally valued in all communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Hands Education Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is A Smile for a Child 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

11 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. 11 of the 40 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $262,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $262,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMANEWVIEW: $30,000 · Other+26 more: $220,457 · Other+26 moreHearts for Hearing Foundation: $150,000 · Human ServicesHearts for Hearing …WOVENLIFE INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesWOVENLIFE INCSPECIAL CARE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL CARE INCHAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHAPPY HANDS EDUCATI…OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY: $262,000 · EducationOKLAHOMA CITY UN…Variety Care Inc: $150,000 · HealthVariety Care IncGRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $60,000 · HealthGRAND LAKE MENTA…The Children's Center Inc: $30,000 · HealthThe Children's C…LIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthLIMBS FOR LIFE F…NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC: $120,000 · EmploymentA SMILE FOR A CHILD FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy
Other$774,457Human Services$307,000Education$262,000Health$260,000Employment$120,000Philanthropy$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY: $262,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVariety Care Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA SMILE FOR A CHILD FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetWOVENLIFE INC: $62,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSPECIAL CARE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Variety Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds A SMILE FOR A CHILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOVENLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗

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…The Anne and Henry Za…Communities Foundatio…Cresap Family Foundat…El and Thelma Gaylord…American Fidelity Fou…Wegener Foundation IncSarkeys FoundationInasmuch FoundationCarl C Anderson Sr an…Arvest FoundationTulsa Community Found…
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK21.7× 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 · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Cresap Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Tulsa Community 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 Dexter G Johnson Educational & Benevolent Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dexter G Johnson Educational & Benevolent Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Variety Care Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Special Care Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–75%
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 40 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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