· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of TOM AND BRENDA MCDANIEL CHARITABLE FOUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| COLGATE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WINGS | $500 |
| ROTARY CLUB 29 FOUNDATION | $500 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +85%- AAALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OKLAHOMAone grant, 2024 · $7k
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +35%
- CLCOMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.
To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.
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…
Support the oklahoma city community foundation through distributions made to the oklahoma city museum of art.
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.
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…
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
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.…
Support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the oklahoma philharmonic.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc and 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.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 CLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds SCISSORTAIL PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LITERACY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation Inc and Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club 29 Foundation ↗
- Who funds RODEO CINEMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAZA DISTRICT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLDE CAPITOL HILL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
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: 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
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 Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Found?
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.