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Renfro Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN OKLAHOMA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $63,500 |
| VARIOUS 2500 | $18,050 |
| HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OK | $16,913 |
| PONCA CITY MAIN STREET | $15,500 |
| UNIVERSITY CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ATTUCKS CUMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $12,250 |
| HARMONY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CORYELL CUPBOARD | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $6,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PONCA CITY ARTS & HUMANITIES | $4,000 |
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +104% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- NONorthern Oklahoma College Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +12%
- MEMarland Estate Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +224%
- PCPONCA CITY MAINSTREET INC3× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SBStanding Bear Native American Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 40% of their budget
- PTPONCAN THEATERone grant, 2024 · $30k
- PCPONCA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIOone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
To preserve the places where Oklahoma history lives.
To preserve the history of Claremore, Oklahoma
To provide support to NWOSU and scholarships to NWOSU students
The Foundation's primary purpose is to provide resources and to seek external support for scholarships, faculty development, equipment, and campus projects, which support Eastern Oklahoma State College, a community college in Southeast…
The NSU Foundation was created exclusively to benefit Northeastern State University for charitable, benevolent, educational, scientific and literary purposes.
Preserve the historical heritage of people living in the 50 mile radius of woodward, oklahoma for the publics benefit.
Nursing home care and assisted living for the elderly.
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.
To provide monkeys retired from research and rescued from the pet trade and other abusive situations with permanent refuge and companionship in safe and healthy habitats.
Low cost housing for needy families.
To provide student housing for University of Oklahoma members of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the most unlike its peers is Coryell Cupboard Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 42 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 Northern Oklahoma College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Standing Bear Native American Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Marland Estate Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds PONCA CITY MAINSTREET INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds PIONEER TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORYELL CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds MARLAND CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
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: Evans Family Foundation · 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 Renfro Family 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.
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.
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