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Stringer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$29kEducation$27kArts & Culture$7kHousing & Shelter$3kPublic Benefit$2kYouth Development$1kCrime & Legal$700Civil Rights$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTS FOR HEARING$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $10k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $5k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $5k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $3k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 7 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$59k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
-10%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Hearts for Hearing Foundation
    5× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +291%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +83%
  • OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -16%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +63%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Oklahoma Association of Realtors

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…

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3
Oklahoma State University Foundation

Unite donor passions with university priorities to elevate the impact of oklahoma state university.

Education
4
Tulsa County Bar Foundation Inc

To promote ethical conduct among attorneys, to advance the effective administration of our judicial system, to ensure equal access to justice for all citizens and to engender respect for the legal profession, the law and the governing…

Crime & Legal
5
Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation

Provide Legal Representation to Farmers & Ranchers

Crime & Legal
6
Foundation for Engineering At the University of Oklahoma Inc

Created as a supporting organization of the university of oklahoma foundation, inc. with the sole mission of providing support to the college of engineering at the university of oklahoma and to increase the number and quality of…

Education
7
Northwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation Inc and Alumni Association

To provide support to NWOSU and scholarships to NWOSU students

Education
8
Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation

The oklahoma access to justice foundation serves as a convener, collaborator, and advocate to increase meaningful participation in a fair and accessible civil justice system for all oklahomans. we work with the entire legal profession,…

Crime & Legal
9
Oklahoma Library Association

Strengthen the quality of libraries, library services, and librarianship in oklahoma

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10
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture
11
Oklahoma City Art Museum Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

Support the oklahoma city community foundation through distributions made to the oklahoma city museum of art.

Arts & Culture
12
Oklahoma Arts Institute Foundation

To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC: $2,500 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INCCOMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED: $2,150 · OtherCOMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED5207 WESTERN FOUNDATION WESTERN CLUB: $1,400 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKC: $1,000 · OtherCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION (KARLIE'S FUND): $1,000 · Other+4 more: $890 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCHearts for Hearing Foundation: $25,000 · Human ServicesHearts for Hearing FoundationNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $7,000 · Arts & CultureOKC METRO ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 · HealthOKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION: $700 · Crime & Legal
Other$28,940Education$27,000Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$7,000Health$1,500Crime & Legal$700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKC METRO ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget5207 WESTERN FOUNDATION WESTERN CLUB: $1,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budget
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 Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC ↗
  • Who funds OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds 5207 WESTERN FOUNDATION WESTERN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stringer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stringer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Stringer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Stringer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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