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French Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5.4M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.5MPhilanthropy$4.3MEducation$258kHuman Services$232kHealth$120kCommunity Improvement$52kReligion$40kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $250k+2 grants · $6.9M
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park$5,356,202
Vanguard Charitable Donor Fund$1,507,612
Peaceful Family Solution$35,000
Shatterproof$25,000
Crossings Community Church$20,000
Edmond Family Counseling$10,000
Edmond Visual Arts Commission$9,725
Edmond Public Schools Foundation$5,165
Allied Arts of Oklahoma$5,000
A Chance to Change$4,885
Boy Scouts of America$3,000
Davis Farms$2,500
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundatio$2,500
Breast Cancer Survivors of Oklahoma$2,000
OETA$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Care Center: $200 → 16%Water 4 Inc: $5k → 16%Peaceful Family Solution: $35k → 16%Peaceful Family Solution: $23k → 16%Peaceful Family Solution: $15k → 16%Peaceful Family Solutions: $15k → 16%Peaceful Family Solution: $500 → 16%Edmond Family Counseling: $68k → 16%Edmond Family Counseling: $50k → 16%Edmond Family Counseling: $10k → 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
CT
RI
CA
NM
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 13 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
27

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

62%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • EP
    EDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $256k · revenue +5%
  • EF
    Edmond Family Counseling Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +22%
  • PF
    PEACEFUL FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • FF
    French Family Fund- Vanguard Donor
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • VD
    Vanguard Donor Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $235k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $77k
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
Drug Recovery Inc

To provide a comprehensive continuum of behavioral health services, grounded in evidence, responsive to personal need, and empowering personal change for those who have been affected by substance use or co-occurring disorders.

Health
3
Saint Francis Hospital Inc

To extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do.

Health
4
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
5
Norman Alcohol Information Center Inc

The Virtue Center is a place of help and hope for people facing addiction and mental health challenges.

Health
6
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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7
E Foundation for Oklahoma Inc

To educate and enhance communications with Oklahomans regarding the beenfits of results-oriented policy making in the areas of education, efficiency, entrepreneurship, empowerment, energy, enduring freedom, and eternity.

—
8
Oklahoma Health Professionals Program Inc

Physicians recovery program

Health
9
Palmer Continuum of Care Inc

To provide quality, compassionate treatment for substance abuse and addiction which promotes sustained recovery for adolescents, women and their families.

Health
10
The Verge Entrepreneurship Hub Foundation
Community Improvement
11
The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation

To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.

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12
Foundation for a Healthy Oklahoma

The mission of the Foundation for a Healthy Oklahoma is exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. The activities of the Corporation may include: (A) Promoting the good health and welfare (continued on Schedule O)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Chance to Change Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Maine Street Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park Inc: $5,356,202 · Recreation & SportsThe Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park IncVanguard Charitable Donor Fund: $2,874,709 · OtherVanguard Charitable Donor FundFrench Family Fund- Vanguard Donor: $1,150,000 · OtherFrench Family Fund- Vanguard DonorVanguard Donor Fund: $235,000 · Other+27 more: $278,247 · Other+27 moreEDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $256,165 · EducationEdmond Family Counseling Inc: $127,700 · Human ServicesPEACEFUL FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $88,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,200 · Human ServicesSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $60,000 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS INSTITUTE OF EDMOND: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $5,000 · ReligionBeautiful Restoration: $1,000 · ReligionMINISTRIES OF JESUS INC: $500 · Religion
Recreation & Sports$5,356,202Other$4,537,956Education$256,165Human Services$221,900Health$68,500Arts & Culture$35,000Religion$6,500

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 budgetEDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $256,165 over 4y, 18% of budgetEdmond Family Counseling Inc: $127,700 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetPEACEFUL FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $88,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFINE ARTS INSTITUTE OF EDMOND: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetA CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION: $9,385 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWATER4 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Street Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDMOND AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeautiful Restoration: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdmond Historical Society Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINISTRIES OF JESUS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc DBA The CARE Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 The Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Edmond Family Counseling Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEACEFUL FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds FINE ARTS INSTITUTE OF EDMOND ↗
  • Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CLARK HULINGS FOUNDATION DBA THE CLARK HULINGS FUND ↗
  • Who funds WATER4 INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Street Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Purpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope ↗
  • Who funds EDMOND AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Beautiful Restoration ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Edmond Historical Society 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 FoundationOK21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inasmuch Foundation · Servant Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Kerr Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Olson Family Foundation Inc · Love Meyer Family Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Sarkeys Foundation

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 French Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from French Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to French Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to French Family Charitable 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 46 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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