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Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation at a glance

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Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.3MEducation$5.6MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MFood & Nutrition$466kRecreation & Sports$417kEmployment$408kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE$500,000
MURRAY STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$500,000
HFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER$405,000
Individual grant recipient$340,000
ARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS$300,000
SOUTHEASTERN FOUNDATION$250,000
FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTER$70,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCACY$50,000
A READING INCORPORATED$50,000
COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$39,000
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COMMUNITY ARTS INC$27,000
OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE$25,000
SARA'S PROJECT$15,000
SPRINGER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$13,500
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 (FY17–25, $450k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $25k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $25k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $25k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $25k → 15%INCA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 21%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $5k → 16%DESTINY RECOVERY CENTER INC: $50k → 16%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $35k → 16%THE GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $25k → 16%THE GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $25k → 16%THE GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $25k → 16%THE GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $25k → 16%JOYCE HOUSE: $22k → 16%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $20k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $15k → 16%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $12k → 16%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $10k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $10k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%THE GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $8k → 16%ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $3k → 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.
$20M · 62 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
33

Total granted

$20M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+20%

Still filing today

47%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AC
    ARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.9M · revenue +59% · 77% of their budget
  • MS
    MURRAY STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +596% · 62% of their budget
  • SO
    SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • LB
    LIGHTHOUSE BEHAVIORAL WELLNESS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • OI
    OMNIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $190k
  • SO
    SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
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
Opportunities Industrialization Center

The mission of OIC of Oklahoma County, Inc. is to inspire and motivate adult learners through academic and career education.

Employment
2
Southern Okla Addiction Recovery Inc

To provide long-term residential job programs for non-violent court ordered drug alcohol offenders in order to obtain and maintain abstinence as an alternative to incarceration.

Health
3
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Oklahoma Alternative Resources

Provide assistance to those in bona fide need of legal help relating to domestic violence.

Crime & Legal
5
The Academies of Oklahoma Inc

Operation of a charter school in a rural community

Education
6
Sooner Theatre of Norman Inc

The mission of The Sooner Theatre is to change lives, offer diverse perspectives and create a cultural connection to the community through the performing arts and arts education.

Arts & Culture
7
Oklahoma Saved By Grace Restoration

To rehabilitate homeless and drug addicts

Religion
8
Ardmore Soup Kitchen Inc

The organizations provides a hot meal everyday of the year for 52 weeks. local churches and organizations volunteer to cook and serve the meal to homeless people and people in need.

Food & Nutrition
9
Okmulgee County Homeless Shelter Inc

To promote the welfare of okmulgee county by providing temporary shelter and food for homeless and destitute persons

Human Services
10
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
12
Ardmore Chamber of Commerce

To encourage, foster and stimulate commerce, trade, business finance and professional interests: to stimulate, encourage and promote cooperation and exchange among businesses; to promote, advance and stimulate civic, business, commercial,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ardmore Beautification Council. 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

52 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. 52 of the 104 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GODDARD CENTER FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS: $2,502,000 · OtherGODDARD CENTER FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTSARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS: $2,395,000 · OtherARDMORE CITY SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $834,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER: $750,000 · OtherSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTERCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $575,000 · OtherTEXOMA AUTISM & BEHAVIORAL SCHOOL: $480,000 · OtherFOOD AND RESOURCE CENTER: $465,800 · Other+66 more: $4,353,195 · Other+66 moreARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $1,949,676 · EducationARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS…MURRAY STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,049,000 · EducationMURRAY STATE COLLEGE…SOUTHEASTERN FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN FOUNDAT…OKLAHOMA CITY GEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $225,000 · EducationOKLAHOMA CITY GEOLOG…A READING INC: $215,000 · EducationA READING INC+4 more: $210,900 · Education+4 moreDORNICK HILLS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $2,535,000 · Recreation & SportsDORNICK HILLS…SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $1,015,000 · HealthBROADWAY HOUSE INC: $130,000 · HealthNAOMI HOUSE INC: $67,500 · Health+1 more: $35,000 · HealthARDMORE LITTLE THEATRE INC: $447,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COMMUNITY ARTS INC: $111,000 · Arts & CultureDEBBIE COLLINS DANCE FUND: $66,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $25,500 · Arts & CultureGRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $108,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $100,000 · Human ServicesARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $87,000 · Human ServicesARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesDESTINY RECOVERY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesJOYCE HOUSE INC: $22,000 · Human Services+3 more: $17,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $365,000 · Civil Rights
Other$12,355,195Education$3,899,576Recreation & Sports$2,535,000Health$1,247,500Arts & Culture$794,500Human Services$452,000Civil Rights$365,000

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 budgetDORNICK HILLS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $2,535,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $1,949,676 over 4y, 77% of budgetMURRAY STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,049,000 over 6y, 62% of budgetSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $1,015,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $575,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetARDMORE LITTLE THEATRE INC: $447,000 over 9y, 30% of budgetHFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER AUTHORITY INC: $408,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetFAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $365,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY GEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetA READING INC: $215,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetARBUCKLE LIFE SOLUTIONS INC: $150,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $145,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSE INC: $130,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetOAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $113,118 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COMMUNITY ARTS INC: $111,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetGRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA: $108,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC: $95,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $87,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $78,275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC: $67,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetNAOMI HOUSE INC: $67,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetDEBBIE COLLINS DANCE FUND: $66,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetOklahoma Blood Institute Foundation: $56,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSUNSHINE INDUSTRIES INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKIPPERS GYMNASTICS CLUB INC: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetOKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCITIES IN SCHOOLS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSARA'S PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHICKORY CREEK CHILD CENTER INC: $31,900 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRED RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC: $22,345 over 2y, 30% of budgetJOYCE HOUSE INC: $22,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOKLAHOMA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEAST ARDMORE REVITALIZATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEROES WITH HOPE OF SOUTHERN OK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetINCA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER SOUTHWEST HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget20TH DISTRICT DRUG COURT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIMPACT ARDMORE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.9% 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 DORNICK HILLS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARDMORE CITY SCHOOLS ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MURRAY STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds ARDMORE LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds HFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER AUTHORITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY GEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds A READING INC ↗
  • Who funds ARBUCKLE LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds OAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds OUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

Southern Oklahoma Mem…McCrory FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Samuel Roberts No…The Daube Family Foun…United Way of South C…Beverly Westheimer We…Charles B Goddard Fou…The Merrick FoundationKohaw Foundation IncThe Anne and Henry Za…The Kelley Foundation
Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation IncOK64.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc · McCrory Foundation · Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · The Daube Family Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Oklahoma Inc · Beverly Westheimer Wellnitz Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles B Goddard Foundation Trust · The Merrick Foundation · Kohaw Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Kelley 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 Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Inca Community Services Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Jerome Westheimer Family 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 104 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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