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The Kerr Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$327kHealth$247kEducation$217kHuman Services$172kYouth Development$80kPublic Benefit$71kRecreation & Sports$66kPhilanthropy$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $182k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DURANGO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
BEYOND THE SPECTRUM OK$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$5,000
ENDANGERED LANGUAGE LANGUAGE FUND$5,000
NEW HOPE REFUGE$5,000
DESIGN CONNECT CREATE$5,000
NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER$4,000
ENID COMMUNITY THEATRE INC$4,000
COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS$4,000
HOLY SEWS INC$4,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $3k → 17%LORETO HOUSE: $3k → 8%WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY: $2k → 10%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $5k → 13%CARE CENTER-CHILD ABUSE RESPONSE AND EVALUATION INC: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY: $5k → 19%OKMULGEE COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $3k → 19%HOME OF HOPE INC: $7k → 21%GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM: $2k → 23%NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $3k → 8%SAMARITAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 10%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $3k → 18%WASHINGTON COUNTY ELDER CARE INC: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY: $3k → 19%HOME OF HOPE INC: $3k → 21%BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $3k → 21%SHILOH HOME INC: $2k → 7%FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%SHOUT INC: $3k → 12%HOME OF HOPE INC: $2k → 21%LIVE THE VICTORY INC: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $3k → 12%PEPPERS RANCH: $3k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $3k → 12%PEPPERS RANCH INC: $3k → 12%COUNCIL FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $3k → 13%LAS CUMBRES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 16%CLOTHS TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%GROWING TOGETHER: $3k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $5k → 15%TENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 14%MODUS INC: $3k → 15%TULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $5k → 15%BLESSINGS TO SHARE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $3k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OKLAHOMA CITY: $8k → 16%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INC: $3k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $3k → 16%HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR THE UNINSURED (HAU): $5k → 16%CITY CARE INC: $5k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC: $5k → 16%LILYFIELD INC: $5k → 16%SKYLINE URBAN MINISTRY INC: $3k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$375k · 27 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
256

Total granted

$375k
$996k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+33%

Still filing today

93%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AA
    ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +24%
  • OKC METRO ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • OZ
    OKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASTEC FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +682%
  • RF
    RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -9%
  • OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -51%
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.

1
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
2
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc

To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.

Arts & Culture
3
Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group Inc

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

Arts & Culture
5
Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Family Hope House Inc

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.

Health
7
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma Inc

We help people overcome challenges to employment.

Employment
9
Oklahoma Connections Academy Inc

Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.

Education
10
Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights
11
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
12
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 12 & 12 Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

285 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. 285 of the 340 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
267/285
Grantees still filing
188/285
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Other+88 more: $428,024 · Other+88 moreASTEC FUND INC: $50,000 · EducationASTEC FUND INCHERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationHERITAGE HALL SCH…Oklahoma State University Foundation: $20,000 · EducationOklahoma State Un…BACONE COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+22 more: $95,500 · Education+22 moreALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED ARTS OF O…OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CONTEMP…A TO Z PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureA TO Z PRODUCTIO…CLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureDEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $57,500 · Arts & Culture+16 moreRIVERSPORT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesRIVERSPORT FOUN…HOME OF HOPE INC: $12,350 · Human ServicesHOME OF HOPE IN…WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWINGS SPECIAL N…CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesTENDERLOVE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $6,500 · Human Services+25 more: $95,680 · Human Services+25 moreOKC METRO ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · HealthOKC METRO AL…HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $24,000 · HealthHOPE IS ALIV…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER…HEARTLINE INC: $10,000 · HealthHEARTLINE IN…HEALTHY LIVING & FITNESS INC: $10,000 · HealthHEALTHY LIVI…OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc: $5,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $5,000 · HealthNew Hope Refuge: $5,000 · HealthGreat Plains of Republic Co Inc: $5,000 · Health+10 more: $27,500 · Health+10 moreCouncil on Foundations Inc: $32,000 · PhilanthropyTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyHOLY SEWS INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Tijeras Pueblo: $3,000 · PhilanthropyERIN EICKMEIER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING: $5,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS OKC CDC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE REACTION LAB: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$493,024Education$200,500Arts & Culture$189,500Human Services$180,030Health$141,500Philanthropy$56,500Community Improvement$42,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOKC METRO ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Academy of Public Administration: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOME OF HOPE INC: $12,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetA TO Z PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACONE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLASS MATTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHEALTHY LIVING & FITNESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARMONY FOUNDATION INC: $7,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNot Your Average Joe: $7,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOLY SEWS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanterbury Voices Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRoshni: $5,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Oklahoma History Center: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Northeastern State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK CUBE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS TO SHARE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGoodwill of Colorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

El and Thelma Gaylord…The Anne and Henry Za…Sarkeys FoundationOklahoma City Communi…American Fidelity Fou…Communities Foundatio…Inasmuch FoundationKirkpatrick Foundatio…Harris Foundation IncWegener Foundation IncCresap Family Foundat…Oge Energy Corp Found…
El and Thelma Gaylord FoundationOK99.8× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 490%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
49get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Kerr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Kerr Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 340 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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