· Private foundation
The Ann Lacy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART | $165,000 |
| NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE | $109,500 |
| RELEVE COLLECTIVE | $31,500 |
| FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY | $16,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALLIED ARTS | $8,000 |
| OKC REPETORY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| BISHOP MCGUINESS CATHOLIC HIGH SCH | $5,000 |
| FOCUS ON HOME | $3,500 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET | $3,000 |
| SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 11 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $447k · revenue +43%
- OZOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +145%
- NCNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM2× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- OPOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue -15%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $100k
- LELIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
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.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
To provide broad-based advisory, planning, and financial support for the various exhibits, projects, education programs, and initiatives undertaken by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
None
A contemporary fine craft community arts organization dedicated to fine craft; showcase local, state, regional, and national artists; and creating a community of partnerships with artists, curators, arts, and social service organizations.…
The mission of the organization is to encourage growth in the cultural climate of oklahoma through the production of classical theatrical productions in unique venues at a reasonable admission price.
Support the oklahoma city community foundation through distributions made to the oklahoma city museum of art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historical Preservation Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 108 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 OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Releve Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OPERA IN THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Aids Care Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL 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: American Fidelity Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma
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 Ann Lacy Foundation 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.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City 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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