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Lay 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ORPHAN$35,005
TULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND$26,500
LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE$15,000
180 DISASTER RELIEF$10,000
OKLAHOMA STATE SOCIETY$10,000
FOLDS OF HONOR- OKLAHOMA CHAPTER$5,000
HOPE FARM$5,000
MEND MEDICAL SERVICES$5,000
THE BENCH FOUNDATION$5,000
HAPPY HANDS$5,000
918 FULLY INVOLVED$3,750
THE DEMAND PROJECT$3,500
DIFFERENCE MAKERS$2,500
BLANKETS OF BLESSING$2,500
WILL'S HOUSE$2,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METROCREST SERVICES: $2k → 14%918 FULLY INVOLVED: $4k → 15%BLANKETS OF BLESSING: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
2
111 Tulsa Inc

111Tulsa exists to mobilize the local church to see that no child is without a family in Tulsa County.

3
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.

4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
6
Childrens International Health Relief

We desire to improve the health care of children and families in need within the United States as well as developing countries. Through collaboration with established health organizations, we provide essential health services such as…

Philanthropy
7
Love for Kids Inc

To enrich the quality of life for individuals living in the dallas/ft worth metroplex who are young or young-at-heart and in need of benevolent services

Human Services
8
Forever Home Inc

Forever Homes, Inc. mission statement:1.Our mission will be to assist Christian families in their efforts to adopt orphan children either from birth or out of foster care.2.Give aid and assistance to orphan children both domestic and…

Philanthropy
9
Bless an Orphan

The mission of the organization is to find rescue and transform the lives of orphaned and abandoned children victims of human trafficking and those who are at risk or are living in abject poverty through educational spiritual psychological…

Human Services
10
Christ Outreach Oklahoma Inc

Evangelistic preaching the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Missionary and support of missionaries at home and abroad. Praying and counseling with Gods people both at home and in the field. Benevolence to needy.

Religion
11
The Good Okc

The Good OKC was created to equip and empower the people of OKC to experience the Kingdom of God in the everyday lives. Far too often we seperate our spiritual lives from our actual life. We believe following Jesus is a 24/7 endeavor and…

Religion
12
Ray of Hope Medical Mission Inc

To make a global impact by sharing Christ's hope through facilitating life changing surgeries for children in under developed countries, reducing infant mortality by providing a modern birthplace and providing mission opportunities both…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $15,000 · OtherLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC180 DISASTER RELIEF — $10,000 · Other180 DISASTER RELIEFOKLAHOMA STATE SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE SOCIETYFOLDS OF HONOR- OKLAHOMA CHAPTER — $5,000 · OtherFOLDS OF HONOR- OKLAHOMA CHAPTERHOPE FARM — $5,000 · OtherHOPE FARMHAPPY HANDS — $5,000 · OtherHAPPY HANDSDIFFERENCE MAKERS INC — $2,500 · Other+7 more — $10,500 · Other+7 moreProject Orphans Inc dba Tulsa Girls Home — $35,005 · ReligionProject Orphans Inc dba Tu…TULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND — $26,500 · PhilanthropyTULSA FIREFIGHTERS …MEND MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $5,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global — $1,500 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $1,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Health918 Fully Involved — $3,750 · Human ServicesBLANKETS OF BLESSING INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES — $1,500 · Human ServicesThe Bench Foundation — $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE DEMAND PROJECT INC — $3,500 · Crime & LegalWILLS HOUSE LLC — $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$63,000Religion$35,005Philanthropy$26,500Health$9,500Human Services$7,750Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Crime & Legal$3,500Youth Development$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAPPY HANDS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Bench Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget918 Fully Involved — $3,750 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBLANKETS OF BLESSING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWILLS HOUSE LLC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lay Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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