· Private foundation
The Puterbaugh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $544k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southeast Oklahoma Public Library S | $500,000 |
| McAlester Public Schools | $200,952 |
| Shared Blessings | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,168 |
| McAlester Regional Health Center | $72,994 |
| Oklahoma Medical Resrch Foundation | $50,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of McAlester | $50,000 |
| Oklahoma Heritage Museum | $26,200 |
| Okla State University Foundation | $25,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation | $25,000 |
| Eastern Oklahoma State College | $20,000 |
| Friends of The McAlester Pub Libr | $20,000 |
| McAlester Chamber of Commerce | $10,175 |
| Oklahoma Arts Institute Quartz Moun | $10,000 |
| Youth Emergency Shelter | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 INC7× · 2019–2025 · $385k · revenue +19%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MCALESTER7× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +17%
- YEYOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- HHHope Houseone grant, 2020 · $89k
- OMOklahoma Medial Research Foundationone grant, 2020 · $50k
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +42%
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.
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.
Oklahoma policy advances equitable and fiscally responsible policies that expand opportunity for all oklahomans through nonpartisan research, analysis, and advocacy.
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…
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…
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.
Education and issue advocacy related to helping Oklahomans understand their Constitutional right to decide issues for themselves at the ballot box.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
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…
Osma's vision is to be the leading voice in health care for oklahoma's patients, families and physicians. osma's mission is better health for oklahoma.
The Foundation's primary purpose is to provide resources and to seek external support for scholarships, faculty development, equipment, and campus projects, which support Eastern Oklahoma State College, a community college in Southeast…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Youth Emergency Shelter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 47 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.
- Who funds SHARED BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MCALESTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MCALESTER INC ↗
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 McGowan Family 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 Puterbaugh 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.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% 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.
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