· Private foundation
Jearl Smart Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY | $21,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $15,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SEMINOLE NATION OF OKLAHOMA | $9,750 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,750 |
| SEMINOLE NATION MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| WEWOKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,500 |
| SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE | $3,450 |
| OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $3,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $3,000 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,750 |
| MURRAY STATE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| PONTOTOC TECHNOLOGY CENTER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOklahoma Christian University8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +10%
- SNSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2021–2022 · $23k · revenue +9%
- CKCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- WPWEWOKA PUBLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $58k
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATIONone grant, 2022 · $28k
- WLWEWOKA LION CLUBone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Wgu's mission is to change lives for the better by creating pathways to opportunity. wgu does this by operating and administering an institution of higher education and learning.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
University of the southwest is a christ-centered educational community dedicated to developing men and women for a lifetime of servant leadership by emphasizing faith, responsibility, and initiative.
The university is an innovative, coeducational, independent institution offering undergraduate and graduate students a career-focused education marked by individualized attention, civility, and respect for difference. the university blends…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
The purpose of the USAO Foundation is to support the mission of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma.
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Patterson Family Foundation · Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jearl Smart Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jearl Smart Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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