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Lester Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Indiana University Foundation | $1,000 |
| Oklahoma Arts Insitute Foundation | $1,000 |
| Bishop McGuiness Catholic High School | $1,000 |
| Crested Butee Center for the Arts | $500 |
| Oklahoma School of Science and Math | $500 |
| YMCA Of Greater Oklahoma | $500 |
| Boys & Girls Club OK County | $500 |
| Catholic Charities | $500 |
| Oklahoma Center of Nonprofits | $500 |
| Teen Recovery Solutions | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +59%
- SCSigma Chi Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +32%
- AAALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IHINTEGRIS Health Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -19%
- WFWhite Fields Incone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -49%
- MHMercy Health Foundationone grant, 2023 · $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.
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
Unite donor passions with university priorities to elevate the impact of oklahoma state university.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
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…
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,…
The mission of the osteopathic founders foundation is to support osteopathic medical education, to enhance the public's understanding of osteopathic medicine, and to improve the health of the community through projects consistent with the…
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To create and administer permanent charitable endowments to strengthen Methodist ministries in Oklahoma.
As a christian liberal arts university, oklahoma baptist university transforms lives by equipping students to pursue academic excellence, integrate faith with all areas of knowledge, engage a diverse world, and live worthy of the high…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Oklahoma City. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY GEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds White Fields Inc ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER MEDICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION 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: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Rainbolt Family Foundation · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Macklanburg-Hulsey Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family 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 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.
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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