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Oklahoma · Public charity

Lake Area United Way Inc

Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.

$308k
Granted FY2023
15
Itemized grants FY2023
15
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$283k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$19,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$39,002
Organizations funded a year
14 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Lake Area United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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
FY202315$283k53%
FY202214$304k36%
FY202115$278k0%
FY202017$319k6%
FY201915$247k0%
FY201817$297k6%
FY201716$365kn/a
78% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$552kPublic Safety & Disaster$287kArts & Culture$242kCrime & Legal$225kYouth Development$221kHousing & Shelter$71kHealth$39kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc$140,75080%
Volunteers of America Inc$102,0608n/a
The Dollywood Foundation$90,29640%
Hope House of Cherokee County Inc$70,954667%
Women in Safe Home Inc Dba Wish$30,77013%
Muskogee County Coun of Youth Ser$19,49712%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tahlequah Ok$9,99821%
Rise Corp$9,50025%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$5,00220%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lake Area United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLegal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: $140,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $90,296 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope House of Cherokee County Inc: $70,954 over 6y, 67% of budgetWomen in Safe Home Inc Dba Wish: $30,770 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMuskogee County Coun of Youth Ser: $19,497 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Tahlequah Ok: $9,998 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRise Corp: $9,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma Inc: $5,002 over 2y, 0.1% 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 8.

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.

Sarkeys FoundationArvest FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sarkeys FoundationOK13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sarkeys Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lake Area United Way Inc

How much does Lake Area United Way Inc give?
Lake Area United Way Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $283,244, out of $307,978 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lake Area United Way Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Lake Area United Way Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc ($141k), Volunteers of America Inc ($102k), The Dollywood Foundation ($90k).
Does Lake Area United Way Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lake Area United Way Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sarkeys Foundation, Arvest Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Lake Area United Way Inc based?
Lake Area United Way Inc 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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $496k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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