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Honestly Inc

Honestly's Mission: We are building a movement to improve sexual health outcomes for youth.

$617k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Education$674kHuman Services$661kHealth$412kReligion$229kCommunity Improvement$114kYouth Development$104kCivil Rights$90kInternational$85kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $512k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas A&M$134,172
Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma$72,000
Progressive Oklahoma Baptist State Convention$71,999
Latino Community Development Agency$61,875
Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center$61,635
Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign$57,510
BNC Global$52,685
Freedom City Inc$25,000
Our Neighborhood Empowered Inc$20,000
Hope for Generations$10,000
Modern Manhood$10,000
Pivot Inc$10,000
YWCA$10,000
Jayden Oliver Basketball LLC$10,000
Its My Community Initiative$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $850k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $48k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 16%TEEN EMPOWER INC: $310k → 16%Teen emPower Inc: $72k → 16%YWCA: $10k → 16%YWCA: $65k → 16%SISU YOUTH INC: $65k → 16%LILYFIELD: $41k → 16%LILYFIELD: $20k → 16%PIVOT INC: $65k → 16%PIVOT INC: $29k → 16%Latino Community Development Agency: $62k → 16%Pivot Inc: $10k → 16%LATINO COMMUNITY DEV AGENCY: $33k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 15 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$2.3M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+157%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationReligionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TE
    TEEN EMPOWER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $381k · revenue +95% · 25% of their budget
  • VC
    Variety Care Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $235k · revenue +88%
  • DS
    Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma
    2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • SISU YOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +157%
  • UO
    UHS OF OKC LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $65k
  • OC
    Oklahoma County Health Dep
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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 Children & Youth Coalition

Oklahoma children and youth coalition, inc. was established in 2012 to create programs and projects for children, youth and their families and those who support them. we worect to mental health, social and intellectual development, and…

Health
2
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
3
Livefree Okc Inc

Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.

Human Services
4
The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc

To prevent child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy. the parent child center of tulsa (pcct) has been serving the tulsa community and surrounding areas since 1990. in 2024, pcct served more than 96,000 infants,…

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5
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
6
Peaceful Family Solutions Inc

Peaceful family solutions dba peaceful family oklahoma (pfo) offers free trauma-informed, age-appropriate, evidence-based, hope-centered programs through day camp and school-based models for children aged 4-18. a key component of the…

Human Services
7
Parenting With Intent

Building strong connections for healthy communities through mental health programs, youth empowerment services and family services.

Human Services
8
Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services
9
Okmulgee County Family Resource Ctr

Crisis intervention services and full shelter for victims and their children of domestic violence/sexual assault. Advocates for abused children in the court system.

Human Services
10
New Hope Oklahoma Inc

New hope teaches children of prisoners to become positive, productive, contributing members of society. we do this by providing after school programs, weekend retreats, holiday parties and summer camps to children who have or have had a…

Youth Development
11
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
12
Family Safety Center Inc

The family safety center exists to promote safety and justice in tulsa county through co-located multi-disciplinary services that offer protection, hope and healing to victims of intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is It's My Community Initiative Inc; the most unlike its peers is Teen Empower 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEEN EMPOWER INC: $381,441 · Human ServicesTEEN EMPOWER INCPIVOT INC: $104,129 · Human ServicesPIVOT INCLATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC: $94,375 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INCFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd: $90,010 · Human ServicesFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign LtdYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OKLAHOMA CI: $75,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OKLAH…SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $68,494 · Human ServicesSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INCSISU YOUTH INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesSISU YOUTH INCLILYFIELD INC: $61,082 · Human ServicesLILYFIELD INCTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $516,972 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYPROGRESSIVE OK BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION: $104,249 · OtherPROGRESSIVE OK BAPTIST STATE CONVENTIONUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: $94,135 · OtherUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Ce…BNC Global: $84,685 · OtherBNC GlobalUHS OF OKC LLC: $64,500 · OtherUHS OF OKC LLC+2 more: $20,433 · OtherVariety Care Inc: $235,480 · HealthVariety Care In…Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma: $104,500 · HealthDown Syndrome A…FREEDOM CITY INC: $124,686 · EducationOUR NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERED INC FORMERLY COLE COMMUNITY IMPACT ORG: $124,489 · ReligionMODERN MANHOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE FOR GENERATIONS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementIT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 · Social Science
Human Services$939,531Other$884,974Health$339,980Education$124,686Religion$124,489Community Improvement$20,000Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEEN EMPOWER INC: $381,441 over 2y, 25% of budgetVariety Care Inc: $235,480 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM CITY INC: $124,686 over 3y, 17% of budgetOUR NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERED INC FORMERLY COLE COMMUNITY IMPACT ORG: $124,489 over 3y, 45% of budgetDown Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma: $104,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetPIVOT INC: $104,129 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC: $94,375 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OKLAHOMA CI: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $68,494 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSISU YOUTH INC: $65,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLILYFIELD INC: $61,082 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMODERN MANHOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetHOPE FOR GENERATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetIT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Oklahoma City Communi…Communities Foundatio…Kirkpatrick Family Af…Inasmuch FoundationServant FoundationHarris Foundation IncArnall Family Foundat…El and Thelma Gaylord…Sarkeys FoundationMcLaughlin Family Fou…Love Meyer Family Fou…Cresap Family Foundat…
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Servant Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Arnall Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · McLaughlin Family Foundation · Love Meyer Family Foundation · Cresap Family 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 Honestly Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honestly Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Sunbeam Family Services Inc: 52% of income from government
  • It's My Community Initiative Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Variety Care Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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