How much did Lester Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of Lester Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

Purdue for Life Foundation$5,000
Allied Arts$2,500
Sigma Chi Foundation$2,000
Crested Butte Land Trust$1,500
Impact Oklahoma$1,500
Bishop McGuiness Catholic High School$1,000
Indiana University Foundation$1,000
Oklahoma Arts Insitute Foundation$1,000
Boys & Girls Club OK County$500
Oklahoma School of Science and Math$500
CASA of Oklahoma City$500
Crested Butee Center for the Arts$500
Oklahoma Center of Nonprofits$500
Annual Catholic Appeal$500
Special Olympics Oklahoma$500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$172k · 26 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$172k

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+161%

Still filing today

42%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

SC
Sigma Chi Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%
OG
Oklahoma Geological Foundation
6× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +319%
OA
Oklahoma Arts Institute
4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +42%

Funded once

IF
Integris Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $6k
WF
White Fields
one grant, 2017 · $1k
YM
YWAM Mazatlan USA
one grant, 2023 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Oklahoma State University Foundation

Unite donor passions with university priorities to elevate the impact of oklahoma state university.

Education

University of Central Oklahoma

Funding of college scholarships and support of university programs.

Education

University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. Guided by our commitment to diversity,…

Education

Oklahoma Christian University

Oklahoma Christian University Exists to educate, mentor, and inspire students to fulfill their potential and transform their lives through Christian faith, scholarship, and service.

Education

Oklahoma Baptist University

A Christian Liberal Arts University.

Education

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

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education

Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

Enhancing the image and appearance of Oklahoma City through education, programs and community engagement.

Environment

Northwest Arkansas Catholic High

Ozark catholic academy (oca) is northwest arkansas' catholic high school. oca is founded upon a thriving faith life, exceptional faculty, and challenging academics. we are forming students to become leaders for today and tomorrow. our…

Education

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) is dedicated to developing a better understanding of and more effective treatments for human disease.

Health

Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Energy Education Foundation

To raise public awareness of energy issues, to educate the general public of the importance of the oil gas industry, to encourage the efficient use of energy, to promote environmentally sound production methods and technologies, and to…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Chance to Change Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Indiana University Foundation. 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

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

11/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$133,500Education$26,500Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$8,000Environment$6,000Recreation & Sports$4,000Philanthropy$1,500

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.

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.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Bowen Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · The Samuel Roberts Noble 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 organisation Lester 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.

2024

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8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Oklahoma Geological Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 731439474 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Oklahoma Geological Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lester Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lester Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Lester Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lester Family Foundation?

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Lester Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lester Family Foundation?

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