· Private foundation
Southwestern Urban Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Dragonfly Home | $5,000 |
| Langston University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Millwood School District Enrichment Foundation | $3,000 |
| Community Development Corp | $3,000 |
| Beyond the Spectrum | $2,500 |
| Young Achievers Christian Academy | $2,000 |
| Freedom Center of Oklahoma City LLC | $2,000 |
| Legacy Learning | $1,000 |
| Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chapter of the Black Law Students | $1,000 |
| Marcella Guthrie Scholarship Board | $1,000 |
| The Howard University | $1,000 |
| Metro Technology Foundation | $1,000 |
| Oklahoma Humanities | $1,000 |
| Classen SAS School at NE | $500 |
| Hope for the Future | $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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +13%- MEMILLWOOD ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +593%
- HFHope For The Future Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- OUOklahoma University Foundationone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ACAmbassadors Children & Youth Choirone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NANational Assoc of Blacks in Criminal Justice-Oklahoma Chapterone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 engage business leaders in the development of education policies that will match our K-12 education system to the needs of tomorrow's workforce.
Economic development in okmulgee county
The purpose of the USAO Foundation is to support the mission of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma.
Education and issue advocacy related to helping Oklahomans understand their Constitutional right to decide issues for themselves at the ballot box.
The Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges provides leadership and advocacy to advance the function, purpose, and values of community college education.
Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
It is to enhance all aspects of academic endeavors for the students, faculty, and administration at booker t washington high school in tulsa oklahoma
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 54 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 THE FREEDOM CENTER OF OKC LLC ↗
- Who funds LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLWOOD ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Future Inc ↗
- Who funds The Dragonfly Home Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Black Liberated Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Cut it Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE PRIDE WRESTLING CLUB ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THICK DESCRIPTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMBASSADORS CONCERT CHOIR 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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Southwestern Urban Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southwestern Urban Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc: 91% of income from government
How this is measured
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