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McLaughlin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.0MRecreation & Sports$3.1MHuman Services$1.7MEducation$1.0MYouth Development$1.0MCommunity Improvement$949kHealth$881kHousing & Shelter$457kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIELDS AND FUTURES FOUNDATION$675,000
OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500,000
PIVOT$325,000
BECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC$299,000
OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NON PROFTS$200,000
CLEATS FOR KIDS$200,000
OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$130,000
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$125,000
HALO PROJECT$100,000
ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK OKC$100,000
OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$100,000
PARENT PROMISE$90,000
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES$75,000
REMERGE$75,000
PALOMAR$70,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%WITH ALL MY HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%WITH ALL MY HEART FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%YWCA OF ENID: $4k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $63k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $56k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $1k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $1k → 16%CITY CENTER: $21k → 16%CITY CENTER: $15k → 16%CITY CENTER: $5k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $200k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $106k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $100k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $100k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $55k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $51k → 16%TEEN EMPOWER: $50k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $27k → 16%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK OKC: $100k → 16%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK OKC: $100k → 16%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK OKC: $50k → 16%PIVOT: $325k → 16%PIVOT: $25k → 16%PIVOT: $25k → 16%YOUTH SERVICES FOR OKLAHOMA COUNTY: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
CA
CO
AZ
NM
OK
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 54 repeat orgs$977k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
41

Total granted

$9.7M
$862k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

74%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationHealthCrime & 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

  • CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $638k · revenue +37%
  • UW
    United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $503k · revenue +8%
  • ES
    Enid Sports Association
    2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +256%

Funded once

  • VC
    Variety Care Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +137%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue -121%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
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
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

—
4
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture
5
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
6
Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…

Human Services
7
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
8
Oklahoma Casa Association Inc

To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.

Human Services
9
Leadership Oklahoma Inc

Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.

Public Benefit
10
Community Action Agency of Oklahoma City & Oklahoma/Canadian Counties

To promote the self-sufficiency of the socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged citizens of oklahoma and canadian counties and to eliminate the paradox of poverty among these citizens by opening to everyone the opportunity to…

Human Services
11
Care Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc Dba the Care Center

The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.

Human Services
12
Oklahoma Community Service Commission Inc

The mission of the oklahoma community service commission is to engage oklahomans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based service which supports americorps programs in oklahoma communities. services may include assisting with…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Potts Family Foundation 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

70 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. 70 of the 102 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
50/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $2,839,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OK…United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $503,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Central Oklaho…OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUN…+3 more: $17,650 · PhilanthropyBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,119,783 · OtherBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INCHALO PROJECT INC: $734,365 · OtherHALO PROJECT INCIndividual grant recipient: $359,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOKCPS FOUNDATION: $345,000 · OtherOKCPS FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $185,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $485,250 · OtherOKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEA…CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 · OtherCENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMA…OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $215,000 · Other+59 more: $836,687 · Other+59 moreFIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION: $1,764,000 · Recreation & SportsFIELDS & FUTURES F…Enid Sports Association: $500,000 · Recreation & SportsEnid Sports Associ…FIRST SERVE OKC FOUNDATION: $130,000 · Recreation & SportsWES WELKER FOUNDATION: $92,050 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $637,975 · Human ServicesCLEATS FOR KI…SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $389,668 · Human ServicesSUNBEAM FAMIL…PIVOT INC: $376,000 · Human ServicesPIVOT INCANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK OKC INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER…+6 more: $104,100 · Human Services+6 moreOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $484,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $298,294 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · EducationKIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $75,000 · EducationFREEDOM CITY INC: $65,000 · EducationEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $344,000 · Crime & LegalREMERGE INC: $285,000 · Crime & LegalOKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $203,732 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $4,500 · Crime & LegalVariety Care Inc: $500,000 · HealthPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $108,890 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $12,500 · Health
Philanthropy$3,859,650Other$4,530,585Recreation & Sports$2,488,550Human Services$1,757,743Education$1,002,294Crime & Legal$837,232Health$671,390

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $2,839,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION: $1,764,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,119,783 over 4y, 31% of budgetCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $637,975 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $503,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEnid Sports Association: $500,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetVariety Care Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $485,250 over 7y, 15% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $484,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $389,668 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPIVOT INC: $376,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $344,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $298,294 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREMERGE INC: $285,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK OKC INC: $250,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $215,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $203,732 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHONESTLY INC: $130,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFIRST SERVE OKC FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $108,890 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWES WELKER FOUNDATION: $92,050 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOM CITY INC: $65,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS: $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTEEN EMPOWER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCity Center Outreach Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRESTOREOKC INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetENERGY ASSIST FOUNDATION: $16,750 over 3y, 29% of budgetCARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOTTS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetA CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $7,475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWith All My Heart Foundation Inc: $6,600 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUPWARD TRANSITIONS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHAYNE A HEDGES REGIONAL SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY BEAUTIFUL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Inasmuch FoundationCommunities Foundatio…El and Thelma Gaylord…American Fidelity Fou…Oklahoma City Communi…Love Meyer Family Fou…Harris Foundation IncSarkeys FoundationThe Merrick FoundationKirkpatrick Family Af…Rainbolt Family Found…Fred Jones Family Fou…
Inasmuch FoundationOK86.2× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Love Meyer Family Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Fred Jones Family 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 McLaughlin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McLaughlin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Sunbeam Family Services Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Variety Care Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Remerge Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Community Development Support Associatio: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 McLaughlin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McLaughlin Family 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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home