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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
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$1.7MEducation$197kPublic Benefit$69kPhilanthropy$35kCommunity Improvement$30kCivil Rights$23kAnimals$15kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,864, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,496 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $142,632 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.
$5,864
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern Oklahoma Library System$5,864
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE: $9k → 15%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE: $5k → 15%Greenwood Cultural Center: $7k → 15%First Americans Museum: $35k → 16%First Americans Museum: $20k → 16%First Americans Museum: $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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 36 repeat orgs$904k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
80

Total granted

$1.3M
$904k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+9%

Still filing today

53%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2018–2023 · $143k · revenue +49%
  • SN
    SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +101%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • DN
    Delaware Nation
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • The University of Tulsa
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +16%
  • OI
    Oklahoma International Dance Festiv
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Fort Osage National Historic Landmark Association

Education

Philanthropy
2
Friends of the Oklahoma History Center

To provide broad-based advisory, planning, and financial support for the various exhibits, projects, education programs, and initiatives undertaken by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Arts & Culture
3
Oklahoma Pharmacy Heritage Foundation Inc

Creation and maitenance of historical museum.

Arts & Culture
4
Oklahoma Railway Museum Limited

Oklahoma Railway Museum allows you to experience history in motion, with an educational experience of railroads and how they shaped Oklahoma and the Nation.

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5
Tulsa Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Okla Theater Preservation Society

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…

Public Benefit
8
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Will Rogers Memorial Foundation

Support Will Rogers Memorial Museums

Philanthropy
10
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Central Oklahoma Chapter
Civil Rights
11
Stephens County Historical Society & Museum

Preserve the history of stephens county oklahoma

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12
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc

To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; the most unlike its peers is Black Liberated Arts Center 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

61 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. 61 of the 116 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $98,000 · OtherSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETYNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $83,000 · OtherNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUMUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $51,883 · OtherTULSA CHAUTAUQUA INC: $51,301 · Other+65 more: $928,187 · Other+65 moreOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $142,500 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA …TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $63,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INCTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INCTHICK DESCRIPTION INC: $39,050 · Arts & CultureTHICK DESCRIPTION INCNORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INC: $35,241 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $26,500 · Arts & Culture+26 more: $317,635 · Arts & Culture+26 moreFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Human ServicesTULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $28,500 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY: $34,215 · EducationThe University of Tulsa: $20,500 · EducationPIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation: $9,650 · EducationSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM: $7,796 · EducationOklahoma Christian University: $5,000 · EducationTRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC: $19,450 · Community ImprovementPOSSIBILITIES INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLincoln Enrichment Center Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPawnee Seed Preservation Society Inc: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN DESIGN COLLECTIVE INC: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,212,371Arts & Culture$698,926Human Services$100,500Education$87,161Community Improvement$29,450Youth Development$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Public Benefit$5,000

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 CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $142,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $98,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $83,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $63,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHICK DESCRIPTION INC: $39,050 over 4y, 11% of budgetNORMAN CULTURAL CONNECTION INC: $35,241 over 4y, 26% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY: $34,215 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $28,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $26,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LAWTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $23,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $20,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN BANJO MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMABEE-GERRER MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC: $19,450 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHEROKEE NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRISTOW HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,974 over 2y, 14% of budgetBROKEN ARROW HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN: $16,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetOKLAHOMA MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetChisholm Trail Museum Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetClaremore Museum of History Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLincoln Enrichment Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAR-BER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $14,992 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMCMAHON AUDITORIUM AUTHORITY: $14,012 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PAWNEE BILL RANCH ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetPreservation Oklahoma Inc: $13,348 over 1y, 12% of budgetASIAN DISTRICT CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $13,163 over 1y, 12% of budgetWoodie Guthrie Coalition Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHREE RIVERS MUSEUM OF MUSKOGEE INC: $11,159 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAmerican Folklore Society: $10,900 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPOSSIBILITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FREEDOM CENTER OF OKC LLC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPawnee Seed Preservation Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPIONEER LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $9,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJIM THORPE ASSOCIATION INC: $9,563 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWILLIAM FREMONT HARN GARDENS INC: $9,345 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST: $9,163 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Honey Springs Battlefield Park: $8,953 over 1y, 17% of budgetSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM: $7,796 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OKLA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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 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 JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BANJO MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Oklahoma City Communi…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Communities Foundatio…The Anne and Henry Za…American Fidelity Fou…Inasmuch FoundationEl and Thelma Gaylord…Cresap Family Foundat…Kirkpatrick Family Af…Arvest FoundationRainbolt Family Found…Oge Energy Corp Found…
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK50.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
21report 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.

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 116 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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