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El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
134
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$29MEducation$14MHuman Services$7.3MArts & Culture$5.3MPhilanthropy$4.1MHousing & Shelter$2.3MAnimals$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+17 grants · $11M
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$260M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASADY SCHOOL$1,502,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON$1,300,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC$1,020,500
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY$1,005,000
OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OU HEALTH$1,000,000
YMCA OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY$1,000,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA$520,000
NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM$507,500
HEALTHY MINDS HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION$500,000
HOPE IS ALIVE$500,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA$456,750
NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC$375,000
FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM$300,000
OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$272,500
UOFL HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
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 (FY17–24, $9.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEPPER'S RANCH INC: $50k → 12%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $100k → 14%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $200k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $100k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $60k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $60k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $50k → 16%HEALTHY MINDS HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%HEALTHY MINDS HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM: $300k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BOATHOUSE FOUNDATION: $300k → 16%OKLAHOMA CITY BOATHOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%YWCA OF TULSA: $70k → 15%PEPPER'S RANCH INC: $100k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%CITY CARE: $50k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $50k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $50k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $50k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $50k → 16%CITY CARE: $50k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $1.0M → 16%YMCA OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $1.0M → 16%YWCA OF OKLAHOMA CITY: $65k → 16%YWCA OF OKLAHOMA CITY: $60k → 16%YWCA OF OKLAHOMA CITY: $60k → 16%SISU YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%YWCA OF OKLAHOMA CITY: $50k → 16%SISU YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%OKLAHOMA CLEATS FOR KIDS: $100k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $53k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%METROPOLITAN BETTER LIVING CENTER: $50k → 16%LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $75k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $50k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $250k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $200k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $100k → 16%SPECIAL CARE: $75k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
OK
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66M · 220 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

220 repeat relationships: 119 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

220
101

Total granted

$66M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+33%

Still filing today

73%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $552k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +74%
  • UW
    United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +13%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • IH
    INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +13%
  • IB
    INTEGRIS BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
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
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
3
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
4
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

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…

Environment
5
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
6
Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…

Human Services
7
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health
9
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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10
Oklahoma Afterschool Network Inc

Works to ensure that all children and youth in Oklahoma have access to safe and enriching learning opportunities during their out-of-school time.

—
11
Oklahoma Academy for State Goals

To provide information to citizens. The organization encourages the utilization and developement of the State of Oklahomas resourses.

—
12
Oklahoma Connections Academy Inc

Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Journalism Foundation. 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

235 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. 235 of the 338 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
229/235
Grantees still filing
174/235
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY: $5,025,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON: $4,543,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSONCASADY SCHOOL: $3,526,000 · OtherCASADY SCHOOLOKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OU HEALTH: $3,000,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OU HEALTHNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $1,457,500 · Other+105 more: $19,155,060 · Other+105 moreUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $5,134,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF O…Oklahoma State University Foundation: $1,530,994 · EducationOklahoma State …Teach for America Inc: $660,000 · EducationTeach for Ameri…Harding Fine Arts Academy Inc: $450,000 · EducationMcCalls Chapel School Inc: $400,000 · EducationKeystone Adventure School & Farm Inc: $360,000 · Education+9 more: $940,500 · Education+9 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…HEALTHY MINDS HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY MINDS …SPECIAL CARE INC: $725,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL CARE I…Hearts for Hearing Foundation: $470,000 · Human ServicesRIVERSPORT FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Human ServicesFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $325,000 · Human ServicesTHE ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Human Services+30 more: $3,705,000 · Human Services+30 moreOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $3,025,000 · HealthOklahoma Medi…Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $900,000 · HealthMental Health…DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE: $754,000 · HealthDEAN MCGEE EY…INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc: $750,000 · HealthINTEGRIS Heal…HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $700,000 · HealthHOPE IS ALIVE…The Children's Center Inc: $700,000 · HealthThe Children'…COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $660,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEA…Variety Care Foundation Inc: $300,000 · Health+9 more: $925,200 · Health+9 moreUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $2,851,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $695,000 · PhilanthropyTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $460,000 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $150,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $47,500 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $312,400 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $300,800 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $285,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $247,500 · Arts & CultureDEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC: $102,900 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $171,500 · Arts & CultureNEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC: $1,175,200 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $225,000 · EmploymentTHE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC: $100,000 · EmploymentThe Meadows Center for Opportunity Inc: $70,000 · Employment
Other$36,706,560Education$9,475,494Human Services$8,875,000Health$8,714,200Philanthropy$4,204,000Arts & Culture$1,970,100Employment$1,570,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $5,134,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY: $5,025,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $3,025,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $2,851,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $1,530,994 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $1,457,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC: $1,175,200 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHEALTHY MINDS HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $900,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $770,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE: $754,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSPECIAL CARE INC: $725,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $700,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $700,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $695,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $660,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $660,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetREMERGE INC: $588,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetMYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION: $555,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $470,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $460,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetHarding Fine Arts Academy Inc: $450,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetMcCalls Chapel School Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $400,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKeystone Adventure School & Farm Inc: $360,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetRIVERSPORT FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $350,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSaddlebred Rescue Inc: $315,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $312,400 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFOCUS ON HOME INC: $307,200 over 6y, 12% of budgetFIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION: $301,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $300,800 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetVariety Care Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEXUS EQUINE INC: $295,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $285,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FREEDOM CENTER OF OKC LLC: $265,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetMETROPOLITAN BETTER LIVING CENTER: $255,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $253,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $247,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $245,200 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OKLAHOMA CI: $235,400 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $230,000 over 4y, 0.8% 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 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY MINDS HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Harding Fine Arts Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds McCalls Chapel School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Keystone Adventure School & Farm Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 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.

Inasmuch FoundationOklahoma City Communi…Sarkeys FoundationAmerican Fidelity Fou…The Anne and Henry Za…Communities Foundatio…Harris Foundation IncKirkpatrick Family Af…Cresap Family Foundat…The Merrick FoundationKirkpatrick Foundatio…The Kerr Foundation I…
Inasmuch FoundationOK190.2× affinity101 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 890%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Sunbeam Family Services Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Open Design Collective Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Youth and Family Services Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Youth Services of Tulsa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: 8% of income from government
  • Remerge Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Food and Shelter Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Ywca Tulsa Inc: 3% of income from government
  • El Sistema Oklahoma Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Dean Mcgee Eye Institute: 1% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • First Americans Museum Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Special Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
89get no government money at all
88report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 338 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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