· Private foundation
The Puterbaugh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Boys and Girls Club of McAlester | $50,000 |
| Oklahoma Medical Resrch Foundation | $50,000 |
| Oklahoma Heritage Museum | $26,200 |
| Okla State University Foundation | $25,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation | $25,000 |
| Friends of The McAlester Pub Libr | $20,000 |
| Eastern Oklahoma State College | $20,000 |
| McAlester Chamber of Commerce | $10,175 |
| Oklahoma Arts Institute Quartz Moun | $10,000 |
| Okla Education TV Authority | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSHARED BLESSINGS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $385k · revenue +19%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MCALESTER7× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +24%
- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 47 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 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 ↗
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 McGowan Family Foundation · The Fugitt Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Puterbaugh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Puterbaugh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
How this is measured
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