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Lyon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$605k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.8MHealth$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.6MYouth Development$1.6MEducation$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MReligion$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $929k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$15,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WASHINGTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $50k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $41k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE: $50k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE: $39k → 14%HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $137k → 14%GREEN COUNTRY VILLAGE: $16k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $14k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $13k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $12k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $10k → 14%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE: $8k → 14%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE: $3k → 14%HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $12k → 14%HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $12k → 14%HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 14%HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 14%HOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $3k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $3k → 14%HOPE CLINIC: $3k → 14%MARTHA'S TASK: $2k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $2k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 54 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
50

Total granted

$10M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

52%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • PT
    PATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $930k · revenue +135% · 60% of their budget
  • OW
    OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $620k · revenue +18%
  • LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $431k · revenue +255%

Funded once

  • YF
    YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $291k · revenue +40%
  • WM
    WOOLAROC MUSEUM & WILDLIFE PRESERVE
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • NC
    NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -35% · 40% of their budget
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.

1
Blackwell Oklahoma Community Foundation Inc
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2
Boys and Girls Club of Bartlesville

To enable our young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their potential.

Youth Development
3
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
5
Bartlesville Bombers Youth Baseball Club

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Western Oklahoma Family Care Center

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

Philanthropy
7
Oklahoma Saved By Grace Restoration

To rehabilitate homeless and drug addicts

Religion
8
Livefree Okc Inc

Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.

Human Services
9
Southeastern Oklahoma Family Services Inc

Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma

Recreation & Sports
10
Northwest Oklahoma Blood Institute
—
11
Leflore County Health Center

To provide healthcare to low income persons

Health
12
The Barton County Chamber Foundation Inc

To educate and develop the economic, civic, cultural, and social welfare for the Barton County region.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Agape Mission of Bartlesville Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 113 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
25/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $1,163,435 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBFRIENDS OF KIDDIE PARK: $837,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF KIDDIE PARKCITY OF BARTLESVILLE: $599,487 · OtherCITY OF BARTLESVILLEBARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ISD #30: $568,500 · OtherBARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ISD #30SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER: $395,617 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $260,685 · Other+83 more: $3,874,573 · Other+83 moreBARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,822,556 · PhilanthropyBARTLESVILLE COMMU…B THE LIGHT MISSION: $382,200 · PhilanthropyB THE LIGHT MISSIO…+2 more: $74,000 · PhilanthropyPATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $930,000 · EducationPATHS TO IND…OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $619,500 · EducationOKLAHOMA WES…+3 more: $23,500 · EducationON THE ROCK MINISTRIES INC: $705,179 · ReligionTHE AGAPE MISSION OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $299,045 · ReligionHOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $191,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE INC: $162,430 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN COUNSELING & GROWTH CENTE: $111,500 · Human ServicesWashington County Senior Citizens: $90,985 · Human Services+5 more: $30,400 · Human ServicesYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $291,000 · Housing & ShelterNEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterBartlesville Area Habitat for Humanity: $88,000 · Housing & ShelterLIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $431,100 · Community Improvement
Other$7,699,797Philanthropy$2,278,756Education$1,573,000Religion$1,004,224Human Services$586,315Housing & Shelter$579,000Community Improvement$431,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,822,556 over 6y, 16% of budgetPATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $930,000 over 6y, 60% of budgetON THE ROCK MINISTRIES INC: $705,179 over 5y, 25% of budgetOKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $619,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $431,100 over 6y, 23% of budgetB THE LIGHT MISSION: $382,200 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE AGAPE MISSION OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $299,045 over 6y, 20% of budgetYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $291,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $249,307 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetPRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INC: $197,405 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetHOPESTONE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $191,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetTHE JOURNEY HOME INC: $164,650 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE INC: $162,430 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $145,780 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING & GROWTH CENTE: $111,500 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetHEARTMATTERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $94,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWashington County Senior Citizens: $90,985 over 2y, 55% of budgetRAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $89,300 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBartlesville Area Habitat for Humanity: $88,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetFAMILY HEALTHCARE CLINIC INC: $63,376 over 2y, 11% of budgetOSAGE HILLLS RURAL FIREFIGHTERS ASSN: $61,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetBARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetFriends of Dewey Parks Association: $50,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetGYMNASTICS CLUB INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $48,331 over 3y, 44% of budgetOK MOZART INC: $46,860 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetBARTLESVILLE LIONS CHARITIES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $25,440 over 2y, 10% of budgetProject Tribute Foundation: $22,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBartlesville Athletic Alumni Association Bartlesville Quarterback Club: $17,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetGREEN COUNTRY VILLAGE INC: $15,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Frank Phillips Foundation Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARTLESVILLE CIVIC BALLET INC: $12,200 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAIM HIGH CENTER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSTAND 1ST FOUNDATION: $11,254 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPlayforburk Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARTLESVILLE REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $7,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY WELLNESS INITIATIVE: $7,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBARTLESVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION: $5,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBARTLESVILLE ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAlpha Nu Educational Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBARTLESVILLE ART ASSOCIATION: $3,330 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE CLINIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Bartlesville Communit…Jeanalee and Charles …Arvest FoundationK S Adams Foundation …McAnaw Family Foundat…Cresap Family Foundat…Ben F and Karen K Bak…Bartlesville Regional…Barry W Lowe and Kare…Kenneth G and Diana M…Community Food Bank o…Tulsa Community Found…
Bartlesville Community FoundationOK65.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lyon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 380%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
38get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lyon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lyon 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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