· Private foundation
Renfro Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CORYELL CUPBOARD | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $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 |
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, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 42 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 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 ↗
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: Evans Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Renfro Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renfro Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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