· Private foundation
Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $570k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $2,000,000 |
| MURRAY STATE CCOLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,250,000 |
| HARDY MURPHY COLISEUM TRUST AUTHORITY | $500,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY MEDICAL CNTR BOARD OF CONTROL | $445,260 |
| YMCA OF ARDMORE OKLAHOMA | $225,000 |
| ARDMORE SCHOOL DISTRICT I-19 | $174,713 |
| MORE FOUNDATION | $84,025 |
| CRINER HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $75,000 |
| ARDMORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $75,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY EMS DISTRICT | $66,054 |
| A PLUS READING INC | $60,000 |
| JOHNSTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE | $58,000 |
| OKLAHOMA ASSN FOR RETARDED CITIZENS | $57,305 |
| H F V WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| BIG FIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CLINICINC6× · 2018–2023 · $4.7M · revenue +669% · 38% of their budget
- SOSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +113%
- LBLighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers5× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +433%
Funded once
- GCGODDARD CENTER FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMINGone grant, 2022 · $1.3M
- SOSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEMone grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue -9%
- AVARDMORE VILLAGE HOUSING CORPORATONone grant, 2024 · $390k
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.
Operation of a charter school in a rural community
To encourage, foster and stimulate commerce, trade, business finance and professional interests: to stimulate, encourage and promote cooperation and exchange among businesses; to promote, advance and stimulate civic, business, commercial,…
To promote the welfare of okmulgee county by providing temporary shelter and food for homeless and destitute persons
The mission of the oklahoma community service commission is to engage oklahomans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based service which supports americorps programs in oklahoma communities. services may include assisting with…
The organization is engaged in the service of rehabilitating users of alcohol and drugs. the center is also involved in community service programs, dui schools and out-patient counseling.
To collect, preserve, and interpret the social, cultural and economic history of south central oklahoma with special emphasis on ardmore and carter county
Osma's vision is to be the leading voice in health care for oklahoma's patients, families and physicians. osma's mission is better health for oklahoma.
To assist persons with disabilities in obtaining assistive technology so they can become independent and productive members of the community.
Provide assistance to those in bona fide need of legal help relating to domestic violence.
The mission of OIC of Oklahoma County, Inc. is to inspire and motivate adult learners through academic and career education.
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
We recognize the diversity of the communities we serve and we are guided by our vision and commitment towards providing excellent primary care to our patients and their families. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Five Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texoma Autism and Behavior Intervention School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 121 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 MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ARDMORE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CLINICINC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers ↗
- Who funds MURRAY STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds THE MORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds CB GODDARD CENTER FOR VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds OAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DURANT ↗
- Who funds ARBUCKLE LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds DORNICK HILLS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Blood Institute ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds A READING INC ↗
- Who funds BIG FIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds CITIES IN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE MAIN STREET AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds Marshall County EMS District ↗
- Who funds TEXOMA AUTISM AND BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION SCHOOL ↗
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: 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
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 Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Five Community Services Inc — 75% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc — 5% of income from government
- Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers — 2% of income from government
- Oklahoma Blood Institute — 2% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
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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