· Private foundation
Masonic Charity Foundation of Oklahoma
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASONIC CHARITY FDN MATCHING FUNDS PROGRAM | $957,229 |
| OK ASSN AREAS AGCY AGING | $674,609 |
| VIZAVANCE | $300,000 |
| HEARTS FOR HEARING | $250,000 |
| PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER | $225,000 |
| MASONIC CHARITY FND INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP YOUTH PROGRAM | $145,257 |
| MARLAND'S PLACE | $145,000 |
| OKLAHOMA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF SENIOR CITIZEN HEARING AID PROGRAM | $125,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $102,993 |
| SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $90,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA | $75,000 |
| DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
VIZAVANCE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +20% · 37% of their budget- KBKATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +76% · 26% of their budget
Hearts for Hearing Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $803k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- DGDIRECT GRANT TO OKLAHOMA FFA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $917k
- OSOKLAHOMA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF SENIOR HEARING PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $518k
- OFOSU FOUNDATION NURSING LABone grant, 2023 · $255k
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.
The Foundation's primary purpose is to provide resources and to seek external support for scholarships, faculty development, equipment, and campus projects, which support Eastern Oklahoma State College, a community college in Southeast…
Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.
To provide information to citizens. The organization encourages the utilization and developement of the State of Oklahomas resourses.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
The Opportunity Scholarship Fund is a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to Oklahoma prek-12 students to attend accredited private schools in our state. Once a student has received a scholarship, that student and…
To provide support to NWOSU and scholarships to NWOSU students
The university of oklahoma foundation is an independent charitable organization that facilitates and manages philanthropic gifts to support the university of oklahoma. with a culture of integrity, skill and persistence, we align the…
Supports Literacy Efforts Statewide by providing continuing education for literacy providers, grants to literacy organizations, and literacy awareness to government and media.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Journalism Foundation. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 105 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 VIZAVANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds CAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · E Phil & Roberta Kirschner Affiliated Fund of the Occf Inc · Fred Jones Family 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 Masonic Charity Foundation of Oklahoma 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- 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.