How much does The Cleo L Craig Foundation give?

The Cleo L Craig Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $175,857 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Cleo L Craig Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Community Improvement (17%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are The Cleo L Craig Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pottawatomie County Historical Society ($94k), Saving Pets at Risk Inc ($44k), Community Market of Pott Count ($43k).

Does The Cleo L Craig Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Cleo L Craig 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 Cleo L Craig Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Avedis Foundation, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Cleo L Craig Foundation based?

The Cleo L Craig Foundation is based in OK.

The Cleo L Craig Foundation

The Cleo L Craig Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Cleo L Craig 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.

$176k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

01What it funds

0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$699kCommunity Improvement$245kArts & Culture$142kHuman Services$102kAnimals$44kFood & Nutrition$43kHealth$27kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $28k
$10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$50k–250k1 grant · $125k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Oklahoma State University	$125,000
Individual grant recipient	$12,000
Community Market of Pottawatomie Co	$10,600
OETA	$6,000
KOSU	$6,000
Mabee Gerrer Museum	$3,000
Pioneer Library Systems Foundation	$2,500
Oklahoma University Foundation	$2,000
Shawnee Community Foundation	$1,500
Pottawatomie County Museum	$1,000
Okla State Univ Foundation	$1,000
Shawnee Educational Foundation	$1,000
Shawnee Little Theater	$1,000
Shawnee Public Schools	$907
Junior Service League	$650

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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

-5%

Still filing today

39%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

PC
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +164%
SP
Saving Pets at Risk Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +122%
CM
COMMUNITY MARKET OF POTT COUNT
7× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +143%

Funded once

GT
Gateway to Prevention Recovery
one grant, 2022 · $20k
RF
REMOUNT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
SP
Shawnee Public Library
one grant, 2022 · $3k

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.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Central Oklahoma Chapter

Civil Rights

Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation

Arts & Culture

Spay Oklahoma Inc

Spay/neuter services for pets of low-income clients and animals in shelters.

Animals

Southeastern Oklahoma Family Services Inc

Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma

Recreation & Sports

Panhandle Services for Children

Provides mental health services, case management, and placement services and prevention and educaiton programs to youth and families in the oklahoma panhandle.

Housing & Shelter

Patrons of the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter Inc

Provide additional financial support for the Oklahoma Humane Society.

Animals

Family Promise of Tulsa County Inc

Poverty alleviation/homelessness prevention

Housing & Shelter

Southwest Historical Foundation

To preserve and protect museum artifacts of the south central area of oklahoma

Arts & Culture

Community Center of Shawnee Inc

The organizations mission is to provide food, emergency assistance and other services to senior citizens and indigent families in Johnson County Kansas as well as the Kansas City metropolitian area.

Human Services

Okmulgee County Humane Society

The Mission Statement for the Okmulgee County Humane Society is to enrich the lives of dogs and cats and provide support to the people who love them when in need - strengthen the overall human-animal bond.

Unclassified

Claremore Museum of History Inc

To preserve the history of Claremore, Oklahoma

Arts & Culture

The Urban Mission Inc

The organization provides emergency social and educational services to families in central oklahoma.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legacy Parenting Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Market of Pott Count. 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

20 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. 20 of the 54 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)

19/20

Grantees still filing

12/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,237,650Education$69,000Animals$43,500Food & Nutrition$43,200Arts & Culture$28,600Health$17,000Community Improvement$8,500Human Services$7,300

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.

Avedis FoundationOK32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Avedis Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · St Anthony Shawnee Hospital Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · United Way of Eastern Frontier Country · Love Meyer Family Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Feed the Children Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home