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Oklahoma Farm Bureau at a glance

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Oklahoma Farm Bureau

Supporting the agriculture community to improve the lives of oklahomans

$606k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$395kEducation$290kFood & Nutrition$232kCrime & Legal$75kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $468,315, the rows itemized in this filing. The $605,549 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $137,234 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $403k
$53,326
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$199,025
Oklahoma 4-H Foundation$75,214
Oklahoma Future Farmers of America$75,000
Aglaunch Initiative$53,326
Oklahoma Youth Expo$45,750
Royalty Owners Coalition of Oklahom$10,000
46 Forward Inc$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%46 Forward Inc: $10k → 15%Protect our Kids No 820: $25k → 16%Oklahoma 4-H Foundation: $75k → 19%Aglaunch Initiative: $53k → 17%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $199k → 16%OKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION: $12k → 19%Oklahoma Youth Expo: $46k → 16%Oklahoma Future Farmers of America: $75k → 19%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $40k → 16%OKLAHOMA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $34k → 19%OKLAHOMA YOUTH EXPOSITION INC: $15k → 16%OKLAHOMA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 19%Oklahoma Youth Expo: $8k → 16%SIRLOIN CLUB: $6k → 16%OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL LEGAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%OKLAHOMA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $25k → 16%OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL LEGAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%OKLAHOMA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $23k → 16%Royalty Owners Coalition of Oklahom: $10k → 16%Royalty Owners Coalition of Oklahom: $10k → 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.
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.
$928k · 7 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$928k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+75%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionCrime & 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

  • OY
    Oklahoma Youth Exposition Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $308k · revenue +8%
  • OS
    Oklahoma State University Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $290k · revenue +43%
  • OF
    OKLAHOMA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    3× · 2021–2024 · $126k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • PO
    Protect our Kids No 820
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SC
    Sirloin Club of Oklahomagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +75%
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 Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Oklahoma Scholarship Fund Inc
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3
Tulsa State Fair Junior Livestock Auction Corporation

To support the development of the junior livestock auction and provide educational, cultural and charitable benefits and services to the agricultural youth of oklahoma.

Youth Development
4
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.

—
5
Oklahoma Restaurant Association

To promote protect and educate members in the restaurant business.

—
6
Farming for the Future Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Oklahoma Forward Inc

Oklahoma Forward works to identify what everyday Oklahomans care about, and help to give them a stronger voice in state government. By creating an environment where Oklahoma voters feel empowered, we can encourage a positive conversation…

—
8
Oklahoma Women in Agriculture Assoc

Usda outreach agriculture technical training

Food & Nutrition
9
Oklahoma Cattlemen's Foundation Inc

Education and scientific research for the cattle industry

—
10
Kansas Livestock Foundation

To operate solely and exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes that advance the interests of the beef industry.

—
11
Comanche County Saddle and Sirloin Club Inc

To aid in the development of leadership qualities and cultural education of the farm youth of comanche county, oklahoma, to assist the farm youth to improve grades of livestock, and to improve the quality of agricultural products.

Youth Development
12
Oregon Ffa Foundation Inc

The foundation is committed to supporting the educational andleadership activities of the oregon ffa association, its members andchapters in order to support agricultural educational programs inoregon.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma 4-H Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is 46 Forward 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Oklahoma Youth Exposition Inc: $307,550 · Youth DevelopmentOklahoma Youth Exposition IncOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $87,414 · Youth DevelopmentOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INCOklahoma State University Foundation: $290,000 · EducationOklahoma State University FoundationOKLAHOMA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $47,650 · EducationOKLAHOMA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR A…OKLAHOMA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $125,500 · Food & NutritionOKLAHOMA FUTU…AGLAUNCH INITIATIVE: $53,326 · Community ImprovementRoyalty Owners Coalition of Oklahoma Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementOklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation: $50,000 · Crime & LegalProtect our Kids No 820: $25,000 · Other46 FORWARD INC: $10,000 · OtherSirloin Club of Oklahoma: $6,000 · Other
Youth Development$394,964Education$337,650Food & Nutrition$125,500Community Improvement$73,326Crime & Legal$50,000Other$41,000

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 budgetOklahoma Youth Exposition Inc: $307,550 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $290,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $125,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $87,414 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAGLAUNCH INITIATIVE: $53,326 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetOKLAHOMA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE: $47,650 over 2y, 14% of budgetRoyalty Owners Coalition of Oklahoma Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budget46 FORWARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSirloin Club of Oklahoma: $6,000 over 1y, 17% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Oklahoma Farm Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oklahoma Farm Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 Oklahoma Farm Bureau?

    Find your warmest path to Oklahoma Farm Bureau 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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