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Howard Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$212k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$62,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 31
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Howard Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$212k12%
FY202425$250k56%
FY202320$145k50%
FY202231$220k26%
FY202130$215k47%
FY202023$232kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$414kHealth$235kFood & Nutrition$138kArts & Culture$119kAnimals$91kPhilanthropy$66kEducation$61kYouth Development$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
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IL
NY
MA
VA
OK
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Howard Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Genesis Project$153,00062%
Special Care Inc$100,00012%
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc$75,00020%
Oklahoma Zoological Society$67,50021%
Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation$64,50020%
Regional Food Bank Foundation$57,50031%
Infant Crisis Services Inc$57,50031%
Pellow Outreach Inc$37,75047%
Kipp Okc Public Schools Inc$25,00011%
United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc$25,00010%
Transformed by Christ Ministries Inc$21,250315%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$17,50030%
Hope Is Alive Ministries Inc$17,50040%
Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc$12,50020%
Katheryne B Payne Education Center$12,50050%
Dean McGee Eye Institute$11,00030%
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation Inc$11,00020%
Bridges of Norman Inc$10,00031%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County Inc$10,00020%
American Diabetes Association$10,00010%
The Dragonfly Home Inc$10,00012%
Preservation Oklahoma Inc$10,00019%
Hearts for Hearing Foundation$9,50040%
A Chance to Change Foundation$7,50030%
Hopehouse Supportive & Transitional Living Inc$7,50021%
Mutt Misfits Society$6,25011%
Red Andrews Christmas Dinner Foundation$5,0001n/a
Smart Start Central Oklahoma Inc$5,00010%
Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc$5,00010%
Whiz Kids of Oklahoma Inc$5,00011%
Teen Recovery Solutions Inc$5,00011%
Myriad Gardens Foundation$5,00060%
Pivot Inc$5,00010%
Rebuilding Together Okc Inc$4,00011%
Impact Oklahoma Inc$3,00020%
Bridges$2,5001n/a
Empower the Veterans Inc$2,5001n/a
Oklahoma State University Foundation$2,50010%
The Homeless Alliance Inc$2,50010%
Science Museum Oklahoma Inc$2,50010%
The Greater Oklahoma City Parks and Trails Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Star of Hope Mission$2,50010%
Not Your Average Joe$2,00011%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$50010%
Chicago Literacy Alliance$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($364k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Genesis Project: $153,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSpecial Care Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Zoological Society: $67,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOklahoma City National Memorial Foundation: $64,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Food Bank Foundation: $57,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetInfant Crisis Services Inc: $57,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPellow Outreach Inc: $37,750 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetKipp Okc Public Schools Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTransformed by Christ Ministries Inc: $21,250 over 3y, 15% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope Is Alive Ministries Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAllied Arts of Oklahoma Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKatheryne B Payne Education Center: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDean McGee Eye Institute: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brain Aneurysm Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBridges of Norman Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dragonfly Home Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPreservation Oklahoma Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA Chance to Change Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHopehouse Supportive & Transitional Living Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMutt Misfits Society: $6,250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSmart Start Central Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhiz Kids of Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTeen Recovery Solutions Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMyriad Gardens Foundation: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPivot Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Together Okc Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetImpact Oklahoma Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Homeless Alliance Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScience Museum Oklahoma Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNot Your Average Joe: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Literacy Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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 Community Foundation IncOK56.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Howard 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.

About Howard Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Howard Family Charitable Foundation give?
Howard Family Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $211,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Howard Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (18%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Howard Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Genesis Project ($153k), Special Care Inc ($100k), Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc ($75k).
Does Howard Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Inasmuch Foundation, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation.
Where is Howard Family Charitable Foundation based?
Howard Family Charitable Foundation is based in OK.

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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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