· Private foundation
Lemon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEATS FOR KIDS | $50,000 |
| POSITIVE TOMORROWS | $25,000 |
| WHIZ KID OF OKLAHOMA | $20,000 |
| ACTS 2 UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,300 |
| KIDS ACROSS AMERICA | $15,000 |
| PROJECT TRANSFORMATION | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SKYLINE CHURCH INC | $5,000 |
| INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $2,500 |
| EDMOND SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| DINNER WITH LOVE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CROSS POINT CAMP RETREAT | $2,000 |
| TWIN CEDARS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +85%- PTPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +82%
- CCCITY CARE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $48k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -121%
- FFFIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +110%
- SOSOUTHEASTERN OKLA STATE UNIVone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
We unite brothers and sisters in foster care, surround them with a community of hope, and help them grow into caring and productive adults.
The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…
Pause4Paws promotes access to healthcare for pet owners in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, metro area impacted by homelessness, mental illness, or addiction who need inpatient treatment but have no one to care for their pets.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
Citizens caring for children breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for oklahoma foster children by addressing their material, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs...because every child deserves the chance for a better life. through…
Reduce hunger in pets by providing free pet food and pet services to low income pet owners enabling them to keep their companion animal(s) with them. this includes providing routine vaccinations, spaying/neutering, pet supplies and shelter…
To assist in the ongoing battle of pet overpopulation in Oklahoma by offering a no kill shelter environment, responsible adoption, medical aid, and community outreach. We also intend to provide sanctuary to companion animals who's people…
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as responsible, caring, and productive citizens.
To encourage the health and happiness of pediatric cancer patients by soliciting public support in order to operate the "ok kids korral". this state of the art facility provides temporary housing for families of pediatric cancer patients…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
20 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHOUSE SUPPORTIVE & TRANSITIONAL LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Whiz Kids of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds DINNER WITH LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOONER GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FREE TO LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CEDARS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY LAB RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Calvary Baptist Ministries Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Servant Foundation · Hudiburg Family Foundation Inc Attn David Hudiburg · Wilshire Charitable 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 Lemon 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.
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.