Oklahoma · Private foundation
Dobson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $675k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Dobson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $650k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $465k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $510k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $485k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $487k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $466k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame Foundation | $171,000 | 5 | 99% |
| Scott & Kim Verplank Foundation | $125,000 | 6 | 21% |
| Stafford Air & Space Museum Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 5% |
| The Children's Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis | $80,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of the Mansion Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 3% |
| United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Fields & Futures Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Dinner With Love Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Center for Children & Families Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Peaceful Family Solutions Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dobson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Presbyterian Health Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Fred Jones Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation Inc · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dobson Family Foundation
- How much does Dobson Family Foundation give?
- Dobson Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $674,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Dobson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Health (26%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Dobson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame Foundation ($171k), Scott & Kim Verplank Foundation ($125k), Stafford Air & Space Museum Foundation ($100k).
- Does Dobson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dobson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dobson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, American Fidelity Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation.
- Where is Dobson Family Foundation based?
- Dobson Family Foundation is based in OK.
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