Oklahoma · Private foundation
McMahon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $540,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations McMahon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $2.8M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $2.8M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $3.2M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $2.8M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $2.7M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $2.7M | 36% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $2.7M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $1,932,846 | 7 | 0% |
| McMahon Auditorium Authority | $1,088,400 | 7 | 96% |
| Quest of Oklahoma Inc | $550,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Lawton Enhancement Trust Authority | $544,850 | 4 | 39% |
| Cameron University Foundation Inc | $495,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $337,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lawton Philharmonic Society Inc | $291,382 | 8 | 22% |
| Red Rock Military Services | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Arts for All Inc | $245,952 | 7 | 36% |
| Holiday in the Park | $207,235 | 2 | 31% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McMahon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Arvest Foundation · Lawton Community Foundation Affiliated Fund of the Occf Inc · The Priddy Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Leslie Powell Foundation Inc · United Way of Southwest Oklahoma · Avedis Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About McMahon Foundation
- How much does McMahon Foundation give?
- McMahon Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $2,826,869 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McMahon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are McMahon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($1.9M), McMahon Auditorium Authority ($1.1M), Quest of Oklahoma Inc ($550k).
- Does McMahon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McMahon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McMahon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arvest Foundation, Lawton Community Foundation Affiliated Fund of the Occf Inc, The Priddy Foundation.
- Where is McMahon Foundation based?
- McMahon Foundation is based in OK.
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