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The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City Inc at a glance

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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.

$8.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
264
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$557k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Community Improvement$5.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.7MHuman Services$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.5MArts & Culture$1.7MHealth$1.2MEmployment$1.1MHousing & Shelter$692kOther$0
02FY2025 · 264 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 264 grants below total $8,500,935, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,830,659 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $329,724 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$24,356
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STITCHCREW INC: $315k → 16%STITCHCREW INC: $150k → 16%STITCHCREW INC: $135k → 16%LILYFIELD INC: $14k → 16%RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR THE UNINSURED INC: $25k → 16%THE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKC INC: $278k → 16%THE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKC INC: $170k → 16%ITN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF OKC: $9k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
CA
NC
OK
GA
TX
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 83 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
290

Total granted

$13M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-4%

Still filing today

24%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEmploymentSocial ScienceOther
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

  • REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $709k · revenue +5%
  • IM
    IT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $526k · revenue +143%
  • THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $322k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • DC
    DAY CREATIVE LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $115k
  • JL
    JIGSAW LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • TG
    THE GOLDING GROUP
    one grant, 2021 · $66k
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.

1
Okmulgee Area Development Corp

Economic development in okmulgee county

Community Improvement
2
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
3
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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4
Convenience Distributors Ok
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5
Ok Rhythmic Empire Inc
Youth Development
6
Downtown Oklahoma City Inc

The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.

Community Improvement
7
Angel Fund Okc Inc
Animals
8
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…

Environment
10
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
11
Northeast Okc Renaissance Inc

To be a catalyst for ethical, place-based community development from within.

Community Improvement
12
Oklahoma Media Center Inc

The goal of the oklahoma media center is to support and strengthen oklahoma's local journalism ecosystem and spur innovation through statewide collaboration that benefits diverse audiences and educate/informs the public on important…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
16/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BE YOUR OWN BOSS LLC: $720,679 · OtherBE YOUR OWN BOSS LLCCODE FELLOWS HOLDINGS INC: $372,510 · Other+172 more: $9,578,452 · Other+172 moreI2E INC: $1,251,348 · Community ImprovementI2E INCINSIDE TRACK RESOURCES INC: $1,029,500 · Community ImprovementINSIDE TRACK RESOURC…THE VERGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP HUB FOUNDATION: $170,001 · Community ImprovementTHE VERGE ENTREPRENE…RURAL ENTERPRISES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $138,757 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS OKC CDC: $130,000 · Community Improvement+6 more: $320,000 · Community Improvement+6 moreSTITCHCREW INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $447,882 · Human Services+2 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $708,512 · Food & NutritionOKLAHOMA WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE ASSOC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionIT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $526,332 · Social ScienceOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: $218,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN DISTRICT CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureOLDE CAPITOL HILL COUNCIL INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureCIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $322,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$10,671,641Community Improvement$3,039,606Human Services$1,097,882Food & Nutrition$733,512Social Science$526,332Arts & Culture$458,000Housing & Shelter$322,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetI2E INC: $1,251,348 over 3y, 26% of budgetINSIDE TRACK RESOURCES INC: $1,029,500 over 3y, 78% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $708,512 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTITCHCREW INC: $600,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetIT'S MY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $526,332 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $447,882 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $322,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRESTOREOKC INC: $280,269 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetREMERGE INC: $255,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $218,638 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: $218,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE VERGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP HUB FOUNDATION: $170,001 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetRURAL ENTERPRISES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $138,757 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPROGRESS OKC CDC: $130,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetMid-America Christian University Inc: $93,585 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN DISTRICT CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFriends of NW 10th Street Association: $70,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetOLDE CAPITOL HILL COUNCIL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPLAZA DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSTOCKYARDS CITY MAIN STREET INC: $70,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT CORP: $36,660 over 1y, 13% of budgetAUTOMOBILE ALLEY INC: $36,660 over 1y, 12% of budgetCIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSPORT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP FIRE HEART OF OKLAHOMA INC CAMP FIRE HEART OF OKLAHOMA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHealth Alliance for the Uninsured: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Oklahoma City Communi…Inasmuch FoundationKirkpatrick Family Af…American Fidelity Fou…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Rural Oklahoma Commun…Arnall Family Foundat…El and Thelma Gaylord…Wegener Foundation IncOge Energy Corp Found…Sarkeys Foundation
Communities Foundation of OklahomaOK23× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 587 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 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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