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The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc

$68k
Granted FY2019
6
Grants FY2019
6
Organizations funded FY2019
83%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Tulsa Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
1
’18
5
’19
3
’20
1
’21
1
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$15,171
Largest grant, FY2019
$25,160
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 83% of the organizations The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20196$68k83%
FY20183$34k100%
FY20175$28kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$787kReligion$62kEducation$33kEmployment$25kHealth$15kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$2kInternational$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTulsa Area United Way: $105,160 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA New Leaf Inc: $25,160 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ability Experience: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Partners: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewview Oklahoma Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrosstown Learning Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Tulsa Area United WayOK13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Area United Way · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lawhorn Family 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.

About The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc give?
The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $67,991 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Religion (7%), Education (4%).
Who are The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Tulsa Area United Way ($105k), A New Leaf Inc ($25k), Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ($12k).
Does The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Area United Way, Mervin Bovaird Foundation, Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation.
Where is The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc based?
The Lawhorn Family Foundation Inc is based in OK.

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 17 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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