How much does Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation give?

Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $91,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (22%), Human Services (10%).

Who are Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($238k), Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc ($43k), Dean McGee Eye Institute Foundation ($35k).

Does Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation.

Where is Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation based?

Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation is based in OK.

Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation

Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin 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.

$91k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$23k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$277kHealth$147kHuman Services$69kFood & Nutrition$50kHousing & Shelter$42kYouth Development$30kPhilanthropy$24kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $58k
$10k–50k2 grants · $33k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION	$22,650
REGIONAL FOOD BANK	$10,500
SPECIAL CARE INC	$4,000
BETHEL FOUNDATION	$2,000
OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$2,000
CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES	$2,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$2,000
CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES	$2,000
OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$2,000
SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC	$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONOKLAHOMA CHAPTER	$2,000
INTEGRIS FOUNDATION	$2,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC	$2,000
MERCY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION	$2,000
WHEATHEART NUTRITION PROJECT INC	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$636k · 48 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$636k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+16%

Still filing today

71%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +47%
DM
DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%
SS
Seminole State College Educational Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +102%

Funded once

GG
GET GROUNDED FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $5k
LF
LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL BSA
one grant, 2018 · $1k
NO
Northern Oklahoma College Foundation Inc
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +12%

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.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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The Children's Center Foundation

None

Philanthropy

Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter

Ok Foundation

Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.

Philanthropy

Comanche County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

The mission of the comanche county memorial hospital foundation is to coordinate and encourage financial gifts and community involvement to support the mission of comanche county memorial hospital.

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Community Resources Real Estate

Support the oklahoma city community foundation, inc.

Philanthropy

Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…

Human Services

Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation

Arts & Culture

Opportunity Scholarship Fund

The Opportunity Scholarship Fund is a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to Oklahoma prek-12 students to attend accredited private schools in our state. Once a student has received a scholarship, that student and…

Education

Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health

Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Ne Kansas Inc

To provide lodging to families of hospitalized children at an affordable cost, or no cost, based on need through operation of the ronald mcdonald house.

Health

Oklahoma Health Professionals Program Inc

Physicians recovery program

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oklahoma Inc; the most unlike its peers is Novo Ministries 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

50 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. 50 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/50

Grantees still filing

32/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$280,570Other$126,950Human Services$99,350Health$60,350Food & Nutrition$50,000Philanthropy$28,050Housing & Shelter$16,000

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.

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 IncOK34.4× affinity15 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 · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · The Merrick Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Paul D Austin Family Foundation · Philip Boyle 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 Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jimmie Lynn and Billye Austin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

26get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home