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Norman Arts Council

The NORMAN ARTS COUNCIL shall enrich the norman community by stimulating artistic, cultural, and economic growth through the support and promotion of the arts.

$544k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MRecreation & Sports$411kEducation$99kHealth$22kPhilanthropy$18k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $133k
$23,728
Median grant
1
States reached
$743k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$133,385
NORMAN MUSIC ALLIANCE$30,000
JAZZ IN JUNE$30,000
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANY$29,875
OKLAHOMA YOUTH SING$26,954
THE DEPOT$26,752
CIMARRON OPERA$26,502
NORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION$25,150
PIONEER LIBRARY$24,336
A TO Z PRODUCTIONS$23,728
SOONER THEATRE$23,307
HEALTHY LIVING NORMAN$22,480
FIREHOUSE ART CENTER$22,119
CLEVELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$20,700
NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE$20,237
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $133k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $53k → 13%University of Oklahoma: $49k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $47k → 13%University of Oklahoma: $36k → 13%University of Oklahoma: $36k → 13%OKLAHOMA YOUTH SING: $31k → 13%University of Oklahoma: $29k → 13%University of Oklahoma: $28k → 13%OKLAHOMA YOUTH SING: $27k → 13%PIONEER LIBRARY: $24k → 13%University of Oklahoma: $22k → 13%HEALTHY LIVING NORMAN: $22k → 13%NORMAN MUSIC ALLIANCE: $38k → 13%A TO Z PRODUCTIONS: $33k → 13%NORMAN BALLET COMPANY: $33k → 13%Norman Music Alliance: $31k → 13%NORMAN MUSIC ALLIANCE: $30k → 13%NORMAN MUSIC ALLIANCE: $28k → 13%A to Z Productions: $27k → 13%Norman Music Alliance: $25k → 13%Norman Ballet Company: $24k → 13%A TO Z PRODUCTIONS: $24k → 13%FIREHOUSE ART CENTER: $40k → 13%SOONER THEATRE: $40k → 13%Jazz In June: $32k → 13%JAZZ IN JUNE: $30k → 13%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANY: $30k → 13%JAZZ IN JUNE: $30k → 13%THE DEPOT: $27k → 13%Firehouse Art Center: $27k → 13%THE DEPOT: $27k → 13%CIMARRON OPERA: $27k → 13%Cimarron Opera: $26k → 13%THE DEPOT: $26k → 13%SCISSORTAIL PRODUCTIONS: $26k → 13%SOONER THEATRE: $26k → 13%NORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION: $25k → 13%NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE: $25k → 13%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANY: $25k → 13%The Depot: $24k → 13%JAZZ IN JUNE: $24k → 13%The Depot: $24k → 13%FIREHOUSE ART CENTER: $24k → 13%SOONER THEATRE: $23k → 13%The Depot: $23k → 13%Central Oklahoma Dance Company: $23k → 13%CIMARRON OPERA: $23k → 13%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 20 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
3

Total granted

$2.8M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-7%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • JI
    JAZZ IN JUNE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $252k · revenue +33% · 30% of their budget
  • NM
    Norman Music Alliance Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +107% · 48% of their budget
  • NF
    NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • PIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -7%
  • NF
    NORMAN FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • AF
    ACCADEMIA FILARMONICA THE OKLAHOMA EARLY MUSIC PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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
On Stage Woodward

To bring quality live performances to the northwest region of oklahoma

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2
Clear Creek Country Theatre

Production

Arts & Culture
3
Oklahoma Community Orchestra Inc

The Oklahoma Community Orchestra performs five to six orchestral concerts throughout the Oklahoma City area during each year at a nominal cost to the public.

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4
Enid Community Theatre Inc

To provide a wide spectrum of high quality theatrical entertainment to a broad audience in Enid and the surrounding communities, and to provide a setting for nonprofessional actors, directors, designers, and technicians to learn and…

Arts & Culture
5
Opera Kansas

Providing innovative works of one act and chamber operas for the public at large, and free or low cost performances for schools and nursing homes.

Arts & Culture
6
North Atlanta Dance Theatre Inc

Enrichment of cultural environment by providing the North Atlanta area community with high quality performances and opportunities for young and gifted performers.

Arts & Culture
7
Northwood Performing Arts Council

Promote the arts in the community

Arts & Culture
8
North County Dance and Performing Arts

Community performing arts

Arts & Culture
9
Prairie Dance Theatre Inc

To promote a high standard of dance

Arts & Culture
10
Ontario Center for Performing Arts Inc

Live music performances.

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11
The Performing Arts Collective Inc

Performing arts productions

Arts & Culture
12
Opera Huntsville

Entertainment | Opera Performing Arts Organization.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A to Z Productions Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pioneer Library System Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAZZ IN JUNE INC: $252,359 · Arts & CultureJAZZ IN JUNE INCNorman Music Alliance Inc: $230,686 · Arts & CultureNorman Music Alliance IncNORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC: $212,312 · Arts & CultureNORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INCSooner Theatre of Norman Inc: $210,851 · Arts & CultureSooner Theatre of Norman IncThe Performing Arts Studio Inc: $209,794 · Arts & CultureThe Performing Arts Studio IncCIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANY: $177,801 · Arts & CultureCIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANYCHILDRENS ARTS NETWORK INC: $152,713 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS ARTS NETWORK INCA TO Z PRODUCTIONS INC: $125,598 · Arts & CultureA TO Z PRODUCTIONS INCCENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANY: $119,287 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANYNORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INC: $110,999 · Arts & CultureNORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INCNAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS: $100,022 · Arts & CultureScissortail Productions Inc: $93,447 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $433,665 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMANORMAN BALLET COMPANY INC: $162,949 · OtherNORMAN BALLET COMPANY INCCLEVELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $55,319 · OtherCLEVELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC…PIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM: $49,125 · OtherPIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM+6 more: $97,405 · Other+6 moreOWWL LIBRARY SYSTEM: $27,380 · EducationPIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,995,869Other$798,463Education$45,380Philanthropy$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAZZ IN JUNE INC: $252,359 over 9y, 30% of budgetNorman Music Alliance Inc: $230,686 over 9y, 48% of budgetNORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC: $212,312 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetSooner Theatre of Norman Inc: $210,851 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetThe Performing Arts Studio Inc: $209,794 over 9y, 19% of budgetCIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANY: $177,801 over 9y, 22% of budgetNORMAN BALLET COMPANY INC: $162,949 over 8y, 47% of budgetCHILDRENS ARTS NETWORK INC: $152,713 over 9y, 61% of budgetA TO Z PRODUCTIONS INC: $125,598 over 5y, 25% of budgetCENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANY: $119,287 over 5y, 58% of budgetNORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INC: $110,999 over 9y, 26% of budgetNAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS: $100,022 over 5y, 69% of budgetScissortail Productions Inc: $93,447 over 5y, 26% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $55,319 over 5y, 22% of budgetOWWL LIBRARY SYSTEM: $27,380 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 6.9% 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 JAZZ IN JUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds Norman Music Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Sooner Theatre of Norman Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Performing Arts Studio Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIMARRON CIRCUIT OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ARTS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds A TO Z PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA DANCE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS ↗
  • Who funds Scissortail Productions Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OWWL LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Allied Arts of Oklaho…Communities Foundatio…Arvest FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Kirkpatrick Foundation IncOK28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Norman Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 25 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 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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