How much does The Ann Lacy Foundation give?

The Ann Lacy Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $433,812 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Ann Lacy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).

Who are The Ann Lacy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum ($447k), Riversport Foundation ($288k), Oklahoma Zoological Society ($260k).

Does The Ann Lacy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ann Lacy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ann Lacy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Fidelity Foundation, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation.

Where is The Ann Lacy Foundation based?

The Ann Lacy Foundation is based in OK.

The Ann Lacy Foundation

The Ann Lacy Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$434k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$165k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MHealth$379kRecreation & Sports$304kAnimals$268kEducation$154kHuman Services$48kEnvironment$33kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0

02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $57k
$10k–50k6 grants · $103k
$50k–250k2 grants · $275k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$6.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
BISHOP MCGUINESS CATHOLIC HIGH SCH	$5,000
OKC REPETORY THEATRE	$5,000
FOCUS ON HOME	$3,500
OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET	$3,000
INTEGRIS HEALTH FOUNDATION	$2,500
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 53 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$387k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+12%

Still filing today

70%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

OC
OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $447k · revenue +43%
OZ
OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
4× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +145%
NC
NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM
2× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +59%

Funded once

OP
OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC
one grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue -15%
AC
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
one grant, 2021 · $100k
LE
LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group Inc

Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Arts Institute Foundation

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

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

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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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

Friends of the Oklahoma History Center

To provide broad-based advisory, planning, and financial support for the various exhibits, projects, education programs, and initiatives undertaken by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Mobility Institute

None

Public Benefit

Oklahoma Heart Research and Education Foundation Inc

Health

Brady Craft Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

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

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 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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/54

Grantees still filing

32/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$971,110Arts & Culture$893,050Human Services$327,449Animals$266,810Health$156,700Education$79,800Environment$30,050

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.

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.

American Fidelity FoundationOK69.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ann Lacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ann Lacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

25get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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