· Private foundation
The Meinders Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of The Meinders Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Meinders Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $69k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ON WITH LIFE | $10,000 |
| CASHION PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $7,500 |
| OKLAHOMA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH | $7,181 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $5,920 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CARING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PRISON DISCIPLESHIP | $2,000 |
| ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $527k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of The Meinders Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation2× · 2020–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +44%- OCOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +16%
- OWON WITH LIFE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CCCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +858% · 28% of their budget
- CKCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +56%
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIOone grant, 2020 · $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.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
To enhance and promote the educational mission and delivery of healthcare of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center through the acquisition improvement and development of various and sundry facilities and performing of any an…
The mission of the Foundation for a Healthy Oklahoma is exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. The activities of the Corporation may include: (A) Promoting the good health and welfare (continued on Schedule O)
The mission of the osteopathic founders foundation is to support osteopathic medical education, to enhance the public's understanding of osteopathic medicine, and to improve the health of the community through projects consistent with the…
The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 82 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.
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ON WITH LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Concordia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Floral Endowment ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS TUTTLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Sarkeys Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · The Ann Lacy Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Meinders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meinders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute: 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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