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Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found at a glance

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Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$37kReligion$26kArts & Culture$22kPhilanthropy$16kEducation$14kYouth Development$8kHealth$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$439k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC$7,000
CLEATS FOR KIDS$5,000
ST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,450
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$1,000
WINGS$500
COLGATE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$500
ROTARY CLUB 29 FOUNDATION$500
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY$250
NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $10k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $5k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $5k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $5k → 16%CLEATS FOR KIDS: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$89k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-1%

Still filing today

78%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +85%
  • AA
    ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OKLAHOMA
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • OC
    OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +35%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.

1
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Oklahoma Arts Institute Foundation

To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Oklahoma City Art Museum Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

Support the oklahoma city community foundation through distributions made to the oklahoma city museum of art.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group Inc

Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.

Arts & Culture
10
Brady Craft Inc

A contemporary fine craft community arts organization dedicated to fine craft; showcase local, state, regional, and national artists; and creating a community of partnerships with artists, curators, arts, and social service organizations.…

Arts & Culture
11
Oklahoma Philharmonic Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

Support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the oklahoma philharmonic.

Arts & Culture
12
Ballet Oklahoma Inc

Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rodeo Cinema Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $15,850 · OtherST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCHST LUKES: $9,400 · OtherST LUKESBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OKLAHOMA: $7,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OKLAHOMASCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · OtherSCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INC: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INCALVA PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+9 more: $5,850 · Other+9 moreCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED ARTS OF OKLA…OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEU…OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA PHILHARMON…LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $1,750 · Arts & CultureLYRIC THEATRE OF OK…+3 more: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+3 moreUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of…OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY: $3,090 · EducationNorthwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation Inc and Alumni Association: $1,050 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationCREATIVE OKLAHOMA INC: $1,000 · EducationPLAZA DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $500 · Community ImprovementRotary Club 29 Foundation: $500 · Community ImprovementOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $200 · Health
Other$52,600Human Services$30,000Arts & Culture$21,750Philanthropy$15,000Education$6,140Community Improvement$1,000Health$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY: $3,090 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation Inc and Alumni Association: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE OKLAHOMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLAZA DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOLDE CAPITOL HILL COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRODEO CINEMA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club 29 Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

American Fidelity Fou…El and Thelma Gaylord…Kirkpatrick Foundatio…Inasmuch FoundationThe Ann Lacy Foundati…Oge Energy Corp Found…Bowen FoundationRecords Johnston Fami…Communities Foundatio…Clements Foods Founda…Tom and Judy Love Fou…Rainbolt Family Found…
American Fidelity FoundationOK30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Fidelity Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · The Ann Lacy Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Bowen Foundation · Records Johnston Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Clements Foods Foundation · Tom and Judy Love Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation

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 Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Find your warmest path to Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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