· Public charity
Local Oklahoma Music Association
To provide local Oklahoma elementary and secondary school music programs with financial aid for instruments, instrument repair, print music, and equipment.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Edmond Memorial High School Band Boosters | $48,000 |
| Edmond Santa Fe High School Band | $11,990 |
| Carl Albert High School Band | $11,738 |
| Edmond Sequoyah Middle School Orchestra | $10,810 |
| Yukon High School Band Boosters Club | $9,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,120 |
| Coctaw-Nicoma Park Band Booster Club | $8,000 |
| Edmond Sequoyah Middle School Band | $7,070 |
| Belle Isle Band & Orchstra | $6,710 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,680 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,050 |
| Southmoore High School Band | $5,910 |
| Edmond Sequoyah Middle School Vocal | $5,330 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YHYukon High School Band Boosters Club2× · 2024–2025 · $84k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2025 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2023–2025 · $38k
Funded once
- EMEDMOND MEMORIAL BAND BOOSTERSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue +72%
- YHYukon High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $13k
- SBSouthmoore Boosters Clubone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2022 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 27 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Local Oklahoma Music Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Local Oklahoma Music Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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