Oklahoma · 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.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $79,550
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Penner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 15 | $173k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $155k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $125k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $158k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $146k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $113k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill United Methodist Church | $413,376 | 5 | n/a |
| Sunbeam Family Services Inc | $86,883 | 6 | 0% |
| Carpenter Square Theatre Inc | $50,460 | 5 | 5% |
| Willow Pregnancy Support Inc | $23,620 | 3 | 1% |
| Young Life | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Edwards Store Inc | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santas Cause Inc | $14,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Savannah Station TRP Incorporation | $12,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Search Ministries Inc | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill United Methodist Church | $413,376 | 5 | n/a |
| Sunbeam Family Services Inc | $86,883 | 6 | 0% |
| Carpenter Square Theatre Inc | $50,460 | 5 | 5% |
| Willow Pregnancy Support Inc | $23,620 | 3 | 1% |
| Young Life | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Edwards Store Inc | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santas Cause Inc | $14,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Savannah Station TRP Incorporation | $12,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Search Ministries Inc | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Student Mobilization Inc | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Recovering Oklahomans After Disaster Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Donorschooseorg | $1,775 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa of Oklahoma County Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Infant Crisis Services Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Quail Community Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Foundation for the Disabled Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Library Endowment Trust | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Penner Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · 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
How this is measured
About Penner Foundation
- How much does Penner Foundation give?
- Penner Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $173,110 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Penner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Penner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chapel Hill United Methodist Church ($413k), Sunbeam Family Services Inc ($87k), Carpenter Square Theatre Inc ($50k).
- Does Penner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Penner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Penner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, American Fidelity Foundation, The Magnolia Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Penner Foundation based?
- Penner Foundation is based in OK.
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