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Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc

Distribution of charitable donations

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$84kRecreation & Sports$59kYouth Development$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kArts & Culture$13kMembership Benefit$7kHuman Services$6kPhilanthropy$6k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $10,707, the rows itemized in this filing. The $71,042 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,335 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,589
Median grant
1
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,589
GIDEON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$5,118
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%WAGONER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - LINCOLN AC: $10k → 9%OAKS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6k → 18%REACHING OUT HULBERT COMMUNITY: $10k → 19%FORT PHOENIX: $10k → 19%WAGONER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 9%ROHC ACTIVITY CTR: $10k → 19%LAKE AREA UNITED WAY: $6k → 19%WAGONER MASONIC LODGE: $8k → 9%SHADY GROVE SCHOOL: $10k → 19%LINCOLN ENRICHMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%NORWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 19%WAGONER MASONIC LODGE: $7k → 9%RIDER AG BOOSTER CLUB LIVES: $10k → 19%HULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 19%HULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 19%HULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 19%HULBERT YOUTH SHOOTING PROGRAM: $7k → 19%HULBERT AREA SENIOR: $6k → 19%HULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6k → 19%PEGGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $9k → 19%LOWREY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 19%NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%CHEROKEE MASONIC LODGE: $7k → 19%MEN IN THE MAKING: $6k → 19%SHILOH CHRISTIAN: $5k → 19%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 93%.

Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 3 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$78k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-73%
+16%

Still filing today

33%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HP
    HULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    4× · 2018–2022 · $42k
  • R
    ROHC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue -73% · 26% of their budget
  • AF
    ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF OKLAHOMA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $16k

Funded once

  • RA
    RIDER AG BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • LE
    Lincoln Enrichment Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • LP
    LOWREY PUBLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Foundation Inc

The purpose of the USAO Foundation is to support the mission of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma.

Education
2
Oklahoma Division of Student Assistance

Odsa shall serve as an information clearinghouse, a service organization, and a cooperative agency for professional development.

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3
Lighthouse Prison and Nursing Home Ministries Inc

Prison and nursing home ministry

Human Services
4
Tahlequah Public School Foundation

Encourage excellence in education

—
5
Okmulgee Elks Lodge 1822

Charity

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6
Northwest Oklahoma Osteopathic Foundation
Health
7
Tulakogee Conference Center Inc

Provide christian based church camp and conference services in northeastern oklahoma

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8
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
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9
Langston Hughes Academy for Arts and Technology

Operation of a charter school in the tulsa area.

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10
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education
11
Ozark Christian Schools of Neosho

Education in a christian way

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12
Southwest Educational Ministries Association

To provide Christian religious training and academic education for students K-12th grades for parents who desire Christian training along with excellent academics

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Rohc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $42,365 · OtherHULBERT PUBLIC SCHOOLSANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF OKLAHOMA: $15,607 · OtherANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF OKLAHOMARIDER AG BOOSTER CLUB: $10,000 · OtherRIDER AG BOOSTER CLUBLOWREY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherLOWREY PUBLIC SCHOOLNORWOOD SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherNORWOOD SCHOOLWAGONER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherWAGONER PUBLIC SCHOOLSFORT PHOENIX: $10,000 · OtherFORT PHOENIXSHADY GROVE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherSHADY GROVE SCHOOLWAGONER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - LINCOLN AC: $10,000 · OtherWAGONER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - LINCOLN ACPEGGS PUBLIC SCHOOL: $9,350 · OtherTAHLEQUAH COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 · OtherANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF OKLAHOMA: $6,500 · OtherHULBERT AREA SENIOR: $6,400 · OtherMEN IN THE MAKING: $6,000 · Other+3 more: $15,967 · Other+3 moreROHC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentROHCLincoln Enrichment Center Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLincoln Enrich…The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe North…ZOE INSTITUTE INC: $9,000 · EducationZOE INSTI…LAKE AREA UNITED WAY INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$179,689Youth Development$30,000Education$19,000Philanthropy$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROHC: $20,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLincoln Enrichment Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetThe Northeastern State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZOE INSTITUTE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTAHLEQUAH COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetLAKE AREA UNITED WAY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHILOH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,260 over 1y, 2.5% 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 ROHC ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln Enrichment Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ZOE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds TAHLEQUAH COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds LAKE AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHILOH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lake Region Electric Cooperative Foundation Inc 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $72k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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