· Public charity
The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City Inc
To foster economic development through private and public collaborations to create new job opportunities and bring about urban redevelopment by means of consolidated and coordinated public agency economic development functions.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of THE ALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF OKLAHOMA CITY 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.
The 264 grants below total $8,500,935 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,830,659 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $329,724 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $202k
- $10k–50k221 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I2E INC | $556,610 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC | $444,524 |
| INSIDE TRACK RESOURCES INC | $360,000 |
| GENER8TOR MANAGEMENT LLC | $283,083 |
| THE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKC INC | $277,946 |
| OKLAHOMA VISUAL ARTS COALITION | $218,000 |
| IT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC | $215,978 |
| CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC | $211,627 |
| METTISE LLC | $186,500 |
| RESTOREOKC INC | $171,306 |
| STITCHCREW INC | $150,000 |
| HOMELESS ALLIANCE | $101,300 |
| REMERGE OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC | $99,423 |
| REI OKLAHOMA | $97,186 |
| SYNERGY FOOD CONSULTING GROUP LLC | $70,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 0% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 214 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M 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
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $709k · revenue +5%- IMIT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $526k · revenue +143%
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $322k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- DCDAY CREATIVE LLCone grant, 2021 · $115k
- JLJIGSAW LLCone grant, 2023 · $75k
- TGTHE GOLDING GROUPone grant, 2021 · $66k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Verge Entrepreneurship Hub Foundation. 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 25 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 587 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 I2E INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDE TRACK RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds STITCHCREW INC ↗
- Who funds IT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RESTOREOKC INC ↗
- Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition ↗
- Who funds THE VERGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP HUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RURAL ENTERPRISES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS OKC CDC ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Christian University Inc ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation Inc an Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Arnall Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Sarkeys 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 The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- It's My Community Initiative Inc — 23% of income from government
- Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma Inc — 9% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 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.