· Private foundation
Penner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chapel Hill United Methodist Church | $79,550 |
| Edwards Store | $16,000 |
| Carpenter Square Theatre | $15,460 |
| Sunbeam Family Services | $15,000 |
| Savannah Station | $12,600 |
| WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Life Choices | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Young Life | $3,000 |
| Santas Cause | $3,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| SKYLINE | $2,000 |
| Lyric Theatre | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +45%- WPWILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +17%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- CHChapel Hill UMCone grant, 2020 · $76k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- RORECOVERING OKLAHOMANS AFTER DISASTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +44%
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.
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
To provide essential resources to oklahomas most vulnerable children by providing foster families with beds, bedding, carseats, & other furniture.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.
To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
Court appointed special advocates are trained community volunteers appointed by a judge to speak up for abused and neglected children in the court system.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
to provide a safe, child-friendly environment for abused children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Foundation for the Disabled Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santas Cause Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SANTAS CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Savannah Station TRP Incorporation ↗
- Who funds RECOVERING OKLAHOMANS AFTER DISASTER INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds CASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds QUAIL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds Library Endowment Trust ↗
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 · American Fidelity Foundation · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Penner Foundation 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.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% 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.