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Lyon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $929k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $605,000 |
| BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $369,150 |
| FRIENDS OF KIDDIE PARK | $265,000 |
| B THE LIGHT | $169,200 |
| ON THE ROCK MINISTRIES | $136,443 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $92,500 |
| AGAPE MISSION | $83,045 |
| CITY COMPASSION | $75,000 |
| RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $69,300 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $68,000 |
| ABILITY WORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC | $63,735 |
| Individual grant recipient | $61,375 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | $60,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $50,000 |
| DEWEY QUARTERBACK CLUB | $45,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k 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
- PTPATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $930k · revenue +135% · 60% of their budget
- OWOKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $620k · revenue +18%
LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $431k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- YFYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $291k · revenue +40%
- WMWOOLAROC MUSEUM & WILDLIFE PRESERVEone grant, 2020 · $250k
- NCNEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -35% · 40% of their budget
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.
To enable our young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their potential.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
Bartlesville Bombers Youth Club is a community youth sports organization that provides competitive baseball programs to compliment community recreational league. Its purpose is to foster national or international amateur sports competition.
The western oklahoma family care center show's god's love by helping families in western oklahoma overcome barrier in their lives in order to help them become contributinng self-supporting citizens
To rehabilitate homeless and drug addicts
Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.
Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma
To provide healthcare to low income persons
To educate and develop the economic, civic, cultural, and social welfare for the Barton County region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Agape Mission of Bartlesville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Dewey Parks Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 113 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 BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE ROCK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds B THE LIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE AGAPE MISSION OF BARTLESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING & GROWTH CENTE ↗
- Who funds HEARTMATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Washington County Senior Citizens ↗
- Who funds RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bartlesville Area Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTHCARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OSAGE HILLLS RURAL FIREFIGHTERS ASSN ↗
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: Bartlesville Community Foundation · Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation · Arvest Foundation · K S Adams Foundation Co-Trust · McAnaw Family Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation · Bartlesville Regional United Way In · Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education · Kenneth G and Diana Moon Adams Foundation · Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc · Tulsa Community 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 Lyon Foundation 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.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% 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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