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Dobson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Health Foundation | $350,000 |
| National Western Heritage Museum | $100,000 |
| Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma | $25,000 |
| Scott and Kim Verplank Foundation | $25,000 |
| Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame | $25,000 |
| UCO Foundation | $20,000 |
| Allied Arts of OKC | $15,000 |
| Urban League of OKC | $10,000 |
| Peaceful Family Solutions | $10,000 |
| Fields and Futures Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Sooner | $10,000 |
| Dinner With Love | $10,000 |
| United Way of Central Oklahoma | $10,000 |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundatio | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- OGOKLAHOMA GOLF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $171k · revenue +317% · 99% of their budget
- SAStafford Air & Space Museum Foundation4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +632%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS5× · 2019–2023 · $80k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- NCNational Cowboy and Westernone grant, 2019 · $100k
- OGOklahom Golf Hall of Fameone grant, 2019 · $48k
- AIAmerican Indian Cultural Center Fouone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.
Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
To support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the national cowboy and western heritage museum.
Support Will Rogers Memorial Museums
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.
The Opportunity Scholarship Fund is a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to Oklahoma prek-12 students to attend accredited private schools in our state. Once a student has received a scholarship, that student and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Chance to Change Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New York Racing Association Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 71 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 GOLF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Scott & Kim Verplank Foundation ↗
- Who funds Stafford Air & Space Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds DINNER WITH LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WES WELKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds White Fields Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSUP INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Cameron University Foundation 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: 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
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 Dobson Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
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.
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