· Public charity
Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown
Lions club of oklahoma city, downtown mission is to promote the betterment of the oklahoma city community.
Read this first · the figures below need context
76% of Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $70k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $69,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $86,079 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,479 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $21,000 |
| NEW VIEW OKLAHOMA | $15,000 |
| LIONS CLUB OF OKC DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC | $7,600 |
| NEW VIEW OKLAHOMA | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| SKYLINE URBAN MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| THE HOYT FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| OKLAHOMA LIONS EYE BANK | $1,000 |
| OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH | $1,000 |
| CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 44% of Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- OLOKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE4× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +155%
- HFHOYT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +100%
- OLOKLAHOMA LIONS SIGHT CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- COCITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY OK - PARKS DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $30k
- LCLions Clubs International Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +29%
- ODOKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRSone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Celebrating Together Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Celebrating Together Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS CLUB OF OKC DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE URBAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HOYT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METRO TECHNOLOGY CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA LIONS SIGHT CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds RED ANDREWS CHRISTMAS DINNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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 · Sarkeys Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown 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.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Feed the Children 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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