How much does Lockhart Foundation give?

Lockhart Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $394,104 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Lockhart Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (75%), Human Services (9%), Housing & Shelter (4%).

Who are Lockhart Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Nexus Equine Inc ($120k), Save Our Strays Inc ($103k), Oklahoma Humane Society ($76k).

Does Lockhart Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lockhart Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lockhart Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation.

Where is Lockhart Foundation based?

Lockhart Foundation is based in OK.

Lockhart Foundation

Lockhart Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lockhart Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$394k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$36k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$1.0MHuman Services$128kHousing & Shelter$60kFood & Nutrition$55kCrime & Legal$38kYouth Development$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $8k
$10k–50k19 grants · $387k

$18,604

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BE KIND RESCUE DOGS FOUNDATION	$36,000
LUPA LEGACY ANIMAL RESCUE	$36,000
Individual grant recipient	$30,000
SAVE OUR STRAYS INC	$30,000
WITTY KITTY TNR INC	$30,000
FREE TO LIVE ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$25,000
OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY	$25,000
TINY PAWS KITTEN RESCUE INC	$25,000
HORSE FEATHERS EQUINE CENTER	$20,000
HAPPY DOG FARM FOUNDATION	$20,000
WE'RE OK FOUNDATION	$18,604
PEPPERS RANCH INC	$15,000
T-TOWN TNR	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$11,000
ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION OF BARTLESVILLE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

-5%

Still filing today

69%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NE
NEXUS EQUINE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +731%
SO
SAVE OUR STRAYS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +16% · 52% of their budget
OH
OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY
4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +547%

Funded once

BF
BEST FRIENDS OF PETS INC
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -100%
OW
OKLAHOMA WESTIE RESCUE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -1%
CC
CITY CARE INC
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

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.

04Its field

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.

Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals

Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals

Pug Rescue Owasso

Pug Rescue Owasso mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, homeless, unwanted , sick and injured pugs. we rehabilitate them medically and emotionally and place them into homes

Animals

Peppy Pet Rescue

rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals

Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals

Runaways Animal Rescue

Animals

Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals

Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue

Animals

West Houston Animal Rescue

Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.

Animals

Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals

Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends With Four Paws Inc; the most unlike its peers is Angel Fund Okc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

10/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$732,854Other$485,200Human Services$137,500Crime & Legal$37,500

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.

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.

Kirkpatrick Foundation IncOK30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Arnall Family Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Love Meyer Family Foundation · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lockhart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lockhart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lockhart Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lockhart Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home