· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| SKYLINE URBAN MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| NEW VIEW OKLAHOMA | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 44% of Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RED ANDREWS CHRISTMAS DINNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lions International Oklahoma City Downtown. Bigger dots raise more.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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