Oklahoma · Private foundation
Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $106M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $987k 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 | 49 | $6.0M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $6.4M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $6.3M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $5.7M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $5.2M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $4.7M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $4.8M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Health Foundation Ardmore | $7,631,149 | 6 | 86% |
| Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc | $4,748,402 | 6 | 38% |
| Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service Inc | $3,005,117 | 6 | 8% |
| Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers | $2,810,839 | 5 | 9% |
| Murray State College Foundation Inc | $1,250,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Community Youth Services of Southern Oklahoma | $943,223 | 3 | 24% |
| The More Foundation | $891,714 | 8 | 33% |
| Southern Oklahoma Higher Education Foundation Inc | $698,444 | 4 | 76% |
| Family Shelter of Southern Oklahoma | $685,000 | 5 | 76% |
| Salvation Army | $582,100 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: McCrory Foundation · Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc · Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · United Way of South Central Oklahoma Inc · The Merrick Foundation · The Daube Family Foundation Inc · Charles B Goddard Foundation Trust · Beverly Westheimer Wellnitz Charitable Foundation Inc · Noble Research Institute LLC · Ardmore Institute of Health · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation
How this is measured
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About Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc
- How much does Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc give?
- Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc reported 54 grants totaling $5,967,620 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (18%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
- Who are Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Mercy Health Foundation Ardmore ($7.6M), Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc ($4.7M), Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include McCrory Foundation, Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc, Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation.
- Where is Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc based?
- Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc is based in OK.
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