· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $5,864 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,496 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $142,632 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eastern Oklahoma Library System | $5,864 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM4× · 2018–2023 · $143k · revenue +49%
- SNSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +101%
- NCNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM5× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- DNDelaware Nationone grant, 2021 · $35k
The University of Tulsaone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +16%- OIOklahoma International Dance Festivone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Education
To provide broad-based advisory, planning, and financial support for the various exhibits, projects, education programs, and initiatives undertaken by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Creation and maitenance of historical museum.
The mission of tulsa historical society & museum is to illuminate the past, enrich the present, and inspire future generations by collecting, preserving, and presenting tulsa's history.
Oklahoma Railway Museum allows you to experience history in motion, with an educational experience of railroads and how they shaped Oklahoma and the Nation.
Old Cowtown Museum, 1865 W Museum Blvd. Wichita, KS 67203, is owned and operated by the City of Wichita and is supported by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc, a 501(c)(3) advisory board, in partnership with the City of Wichita. Old Cowtown…
Our purpose is to restore and preserve the historic Okla Theatre, a cherished landmark that holds deep cultural and historical significance for our town. Through this restoration, we aim to honor our communitys heritage, foster local…
Support Will Rogers Memorial Museums
Preserve the history of stephens county oklahoma
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the most unlike its peers is Har-Ber Village Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THICK DESCRIPTION INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LAWTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BANJO MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOW HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROKEN ARROW HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Open Design Collective Inc — 46% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.