· Private foundation
The McGowan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MCALESTER | $70,520 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF HOPE | $33,000 |
| RYANS HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,800 |
| MCALESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,500 |
| TABERNACLE OF PRAISE WORSHIP CENTER | $10,000 |
| MCALESTER AREA ARTS & HUMANITIES | $10,000 |
| MT TRIUMPH BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CHURCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LIFECHURCH | $5,000 |
| GREATER OKC PANHELLENIC FOUNDATION | $2,900 |
| CHEROKEE CLUB | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- SBSHARED BLESSINGS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $95k · revenue +27%
- IOINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW2× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +10%
- PIPRIDE IN MCALESTER INC2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- KPKIOWA PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue -124%
- TGThe Good Samaritan Outreachgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +98%
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.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Transitional living for recovered addicts.
Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.
Oasis of Northwest Arkansas provides sober housing and resources for women in recovery and their children.
The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…
Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma
To rehabilitate homeless and drug addicts
Planted Seed Ministries offers and supportive services to homeless individuals. We are a public charity.
Sober living and community residential services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shared Blessings Inc and the most unlike its peers is Potts Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 68 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
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.
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: The Puterbaugh Foundation · The Fugitt Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 McGowan Family Foundation 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.
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 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.