· Private foundation
Dobson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame | $25,000 |
| Scott and Kim Verplank Foundation | $25,000 |
| Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma | $25,000 |
| UCO Foundation | $20,000 |
| Allied Arts of OKC | $15,000 |
| Urban League of OKC | $10,000 |
| Dinner With Love | $10,000 |
| United Way of Central Oklahoma | $10,000 |
| Fields and Futures Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Peaceful Family Solutions | $10,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Sooner | $10,000 |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundatio | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- PRPeppers Ranch Foster Care Communityone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DINNER WITH LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- 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 White Fields Inc ↗
- Who funds WES WELKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSUP INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Cameron University Foundation Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dobson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dobson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
How this is measured
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