· Private foundation
Howard Family Charitable 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL & MUSEUM | $62,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA | $50,000 |
| INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| GENESIS PROJECT | $17,500 |
| OZS | $13,000 |
| PELLOW OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| CAMP VALOR OUTDOORS | $5,000 |
| HOPE IS ALIVE | $5,000 |
| FIRST | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| GREATER OKC PARKS AND TRAILS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| YWCA | $2,500 |
| LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL BSA | $2,500 |
| PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER | $2,500 |
| HEARTS FOR HEARING | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TGTHE GENESIS PROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $153k · revenue +68%
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +5%- OZOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2022 · $68k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- SCSPECIAL CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +93%
- KOKIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +33%
- UWUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
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…
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
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 organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
Provide the highest quality residential services to people with developmental disabilities. a major part of the mission is to provide opportunities to these individuals based upon their right to a normal daily routine. specifically, it is…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
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.
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Chance to Change Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 72 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 THE GENESIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PELLOW OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds KIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMED BY CHRIST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF NORMAN INC ↗
- Who funds Preservation Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds The Dragonfly Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEHOUSE SUPPORTIVE & TRANSITIONAL LIVING INC ↗
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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · Cresap Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation 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 Howard Family Charitable 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.
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% 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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