How much does The Oliver Foundation give?

The Oliver Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $112,253 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Oliver Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Religion (17%), Community Improvement (12%).

Who are The Oliver Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ducks Unlimited Inc ($30k), Transition House Inc ($25k), Westminster School ($18k).

Does The Oliver Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Oliver Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Oliver Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, American Fidelity Foundation, Presbyterian Health Foundation.

Where is The Oliver Foundation based?

The Oliver Foundation is based in OK.

The Oliver Foundation

The Oliver Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Oliver Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$112k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$230kReligion$96kCommunity Improvement$66kHealth$38kEnvironment$36kArts & Culture$22kCrime & Legal$20kYouth Development$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $30k
$10k–50k4 grants · $82k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA	$25,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-LOAVES&FISHES	$24,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	$17,175
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	$16,280
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	$7,298
HBC CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION	$5,000
TRANSITION HOUSE	$5,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL	$4,000
SANTE FE LIFE CENTER	$3,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA	$2,500
BRITTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH	$2,000
LLS RED RIVER REGION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$372k · 13 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$372k

$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

+13%

Still filing today

46%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthYouth 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

TH
Transition House Inc
5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +54%
WS
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL
4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc
4× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +78%

Funded once

DU
Ducks Unlimited Inc
one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -14%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $25k
JL
JOSH LEFFLER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
one grant, 2020 · $22k

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.

Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

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…

Environment

Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture

Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

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

Employment

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

Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter

Child Welfare Citizen Board of Can Co Oklahoma Inc

to provide a safe, child-friendly environment for abused children

Human Services

Leadership Oklahoma Inc

Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.

Public Benefit

Oklahoma Casa Association Inc

To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hbc Champions 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.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

8/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$439,297Environment$36,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$17,000Philanthropy$16,000Youth Development$15,000Human Services$11,000

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.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Presbyterian Health Foundation · Vose Foundation Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Records Johnston Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation Inc · Harris 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 Oliver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oliver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home