· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT | $5,000 |
| Life Choices | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Santas Cause | $3,000 |
| Young Life | $3,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| SKYLINE | $2,000 |
| Lyric Theatre | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +172%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Penner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Penner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc: 52% of income from government
How this is measured
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