· Private foundation
The Barnes 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY CHURCH INC | $70,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| IRON GATE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $294k · revenue +46%
IRON GATE INC5× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +6%- OHOPERATION HOPE PRISON MINISTRY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- 1112 & 12 INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +82%
- OIOKLAHOMA INNOVATION INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.
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.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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,…
To provide support to NWOSU and scholarships to NWOSU students
To develop and provide premier, wellness-based campuses and community outreach.
The oklahoma bar foundation provides annual funding through grants to promote the advancement of justice, to provide critical civil legal services to those in need, and to increase public awareness and understanding of the american legal…
How this is measured
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 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds 12 & 12 INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE PRISON MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM 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.
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barnes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barnes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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