· Private foundation
The Kerr Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k63 grants · $182k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC | $15,000 |
| CHARLES B GODDARD CENTER FOR THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS OKLAHOMA CITY | $7,500 |
| NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| ENDANGERED LANGUAGE LANGUAGE FUND | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DURANGO EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEW HOPE REFUGE | $5,000 |
| BEYOND THE SPECTRUM OK | $5,000 |
| DESIGN CONNECT CREATE | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER | $4,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS | $4,000 |
| ENID COMMUNITY THEATRE INC | $4,000 |
| HOLY SEWS INC | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC | $3,500 |
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, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 56 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- AAALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +24%
- OZOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +175%
OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC2× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- AFASTEC FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +682%
OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -51%- RFRIVERSPORT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -9%
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.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.
We help people overcome challenges to employment.
Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 12 & 12 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enid Community Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
285 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. 285 of the 340 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ASTEC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds National Academy of Public Administration ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY ↗
- Who funds HOME OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds A TO Z PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET ↗
- Who funds HEARTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds CLASS MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BACONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LIVING & FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oklahoma City Inc ↗
- Who funds CLOSE UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Not Your Average Joe ↗
- Who funds TENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY SEWS 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: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Inasmuch Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · Wegener Foundation Inc · Cresap Family Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc
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 Kerr Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lowrey Volunteer Fire Department — 100% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Growing Together Inc — 9% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Canterbury Voices Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Southern Nazarene University — 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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