Oklahoma · Public charity
Oklahoma Bar Foundation
The OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION provides annual funding through grants to promote the advancement of justice, to provide critical civil legal services to those in need, and to increase public awareness and understanding of the american legal system.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 61
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 47
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Oklahoma Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 58 | $3.0M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $1.7M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $548k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 43 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc | $1,364,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Oklahoma City University | $730,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Oklahoma Lawyers for Children Inc | $639,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc | $450,000 | 8 | 25% |
| Trinity Legal Clinic of Oklahoma | $428,000 | 8 | 46% |
| Safe Center Inc | $416,000 | 7 | 31% |
| Tulsa County Election Board | $381,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Guardian Ad Litem Institute | $378,067 | 8 | 42% |
| The Spero Project Inc | $353,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Teen Court Inc | $329,067 | 8 | 24% |
Show all 74 grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oklahoma Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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: Sarkeys Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Arvest Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation Inc · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Cresap Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation
How this is measured
About Oklahoma Bar Foundation
- How much does Oklahoma Bar Foundation give?
- Oklahoma Bar Foundation reported 61 itemized grants totaling $3,145,214, out of $3,246,781 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Oklahoma Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (72%), Human Services (12%), Education (9%).
- Who are Oklahoma Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc ($1.4M), Oklahoma City University ($730k), Oklahoma Lawyers for Children Inc ($639k).
- Does Oklahoma Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oklahoma Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sarkeys Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma.
- Where is Oklahoma Bar Foundation based?
- Oklahoma Bar Foundation is based in OK.
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