· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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 +16%
Funded once
- KPKIOWA PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue -124%
- CGCART GUY INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: The Puterbaugh Foundation · The Fugitt Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McGowan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McGowan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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