Oklahoma · Private foundation
El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2024
- 153
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,502,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 153 to 175
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $260M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 | 133 | $15M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 153 | $14M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 159 | $13M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 175 | $13M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 171 | $8.9M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 159 | $9.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $5,134,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Mercy Health Foundation Oklahoma City | $5,025,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Casady School | $3,526,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | $3,025,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc | $2,851,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Oklahoma City | $2,000,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $1,530,994 | 5 | 0% |
| National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum | $1,457,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Newview Oklahoma Inc | $1,175,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Healthy Minds Healthy Lives Foundation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 56% |
Show all 238 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 97 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Harris Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Cresap Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · The Kerr Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation
- How much does El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation give?
- El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $15,556,685 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 153 and 175 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (20%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($5.1M), Mercy Health Foundation Oklahoma City ($5.0M), Casady School ($3.5M).
- Does El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inasmuch Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Sarkeys Foundation.
- Where is El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation based?
- El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation is based in OK.
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