Oklahoma · Public charity
Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc
The mission of Oklahoma Humanities (OH) is to strengthen communities by helping Oklahomans learn about the human experience, understand new perspectives, and participate knowledgeably in civic life.
- $148k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,864
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,864
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $198k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $302k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $311k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $942k | 84% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $130k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $120k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum | $142,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Seminole Nation Historical Society | $98,000 | 5 | 12% |
| National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum | $83,000 | 5 | 0% |
| First Americans Museum Foundation | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc | $63,000 | 3 | 3% |
| University of Oklahoma | $51,883 | 3 | n/a |
| Tulsa Chautauqua Inc | $51,301 | 6 | n/a |
| The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Thick Description Inc | $39,050 | 4 | 11% |
| Norman Cultural Connection Inc | $35,241 | 4 | 26% |
Show all 81 grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Arvest Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc
- How much does Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc give?
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,864, out of $148,496 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (9%), Public Benefit (3%).
- Who are Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum ($143k), Seminole Nation Historical Society ($98k), National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum ($83k).
- Does Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma.
- Where is Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc based?
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc is based in OK.
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