· Private foundation
Fred Jones Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k95 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE ASSOC | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA | $35,000 |
| OKC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALLIED ARTS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $14,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA | $12,500 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN SILVER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN SILVER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA | $8,333 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| HERITAGE HALL SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,700 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER | $6,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AAALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +38%
Vanderbilt University6× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +65%- EMEisenhower Medical Center5× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $114k
- SMSearch Ministriesone grant, 2020 · $30k
Paseo Artists Associationone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +15%
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.
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 tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
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…
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heartland Lab Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 194 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 United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
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- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Paseo Artists Association ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAZE'S TRIBUTE EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds WES WELKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSEMARY FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
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 · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · The Merrick Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf 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 Fred Jones 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.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Special Care Inc — 0% 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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