· Private foundation
The Waters Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIDEON RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA WRESTLING ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GO FUND ME HELP | $525 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT | $500 |
| UT SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $55k
- SMST MARY'S CHURCH3× · 2023–2025 · $40k
- OUOUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FKFUNDAMENTAL KIDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $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.
Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…
To build houses for people in need and to give them a stepping stone to a better life.
To operate a 30 unit permanent and temporary housing facility known as Destiny Village for rental to low income individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence and or sexual assault
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Bethany house abuse shelter provides a safe haven and comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence and their children.
Provide a homelike atmosphere to help change the lives of drug and alcohol reliant individuals.
Provide housing and residential care for recovering alcoholic
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
Led by formerly incarcerated people, we aim to eradicate poverty and incarceration, and in their place, create communities of care that support self-determination and keep families safe. We accomplish his mission through housing models,…
Residential sober living house. assit men in overcoming addiction and reintergrating into society.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 34 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 JOYCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPING HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds OUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE BEAUTIFICATION COUNCIL ↗
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: Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation · The Daube Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc · McCrory Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Waters Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Waters Family Foundation Inc. 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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