· Private foundation
Lionel and Bea Harris 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
- $250k+2 grants · $660k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIMMARRON VALLEY COOP INC | $410,000 |
| OAK GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH | $250,000 |
| EPOS OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC | $98,160 |
| LOVE INC OF GREATER CUSHING | $32,500 |
| CIMARRON VALLEY ENTREPRENEURS ALLIA | $25,000 |
| DRUMRIGHT COMMUNITY FUNDINC | $22,889 |
| CUSHING FAIRLAWN NEW ZION CEMETERY | $15,000 |
| OKLAHOMA FFA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,950 |
| CITY OF YALE | $12,800 |
| RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| DRUMRIGHT COMMUNITY FUND INC | $7,000 |
| DRUMRIGHT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| CUSHING GOLF BOOSTER CLUB INC | $5,000 |
| CIMARRON PLAYERS INC | $2,500 |
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, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 67% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
- CCCUSHING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE4× · 2019–2022 · $165k · revenue +39% · 73% of their budget
- LILOVE INC OF GREATER CUSHING5× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +97%
- CPCUSHING PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +107% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $150k
- CCCUSHING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FDNone grant, 2020 · $100k
- DPDRUMRIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $85k
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.
The purpose is to secure and expand financial aid for capital improvements, expansion of health care facilities and services and contribute to the health care maintenance of the poeple of cushing, oklahoma and the surrounding region.
Fire suppression and prevention, emergency medical supplies public awareness and education
Public elementary support
Community & economic enhancement
To provide scholarship funds for graduating students of custer county district high school following evaluation of applications from the general student population.
promote positive youth development
Support student athletics
The custer county foundation awards grants to charitable organizations, scholarships to students, and provides support to charitable organizations and potential donors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epos Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cushing Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 52 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 CUSHING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds EPOS OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF GREATER CUSHING ↗
- Who funds THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CUSHING PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Epic Performance Athletes Inc ↗
- Who funds CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cushing Quarterback Club ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Lionel and Bea Harris 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.
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