· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PAYNE COUNTY UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +216% · 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lionel and Bea Harris Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lionel and Bea Harris Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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