· Public charity
United Way of South Central Oklahoma Inc
Creating community-based and community-led solutions that strengthen the cornerstones of a better quality of life, education, health, and financial stability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $510k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Carter County Group Homes | $76,792 |
| RSVP-INCA | $69,196 |
| Take Two Academy | $66,117 |
| HFVWilson Commty Ctr | $60,000 |
| Camp Fire Heart of Okla Inc | $56,143 |
| Family Shelter of So Okla | $50,000 |
| SO OK Rural Transportation | $50,000 |
| Ardmore Habitat for Humanity | $48,127 |
| Naomi House Inc | $42,000 |
| Texoma Autism & Behavioral | $40,000 |
| Gloria Ainsworth Day Care Ctr | $36,000 |
| Madill Community Day Care | $36,000 |
| Saras Project | $35,000 |
| Outcasts Under Transformation | $34,000 |
| Our Neighbors Cupboard | $32,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against -71% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 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 FY2024, 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
- FSFAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA8× · 2017–2024 · $398k · revenue +83%
- HWHFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER AUTHORITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $384k · revenue +284%
- TTTake Two Alternative Educational Services of Southern Oklahoma Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue +52% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- TLTHE LANDING BRIDGE INCone grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue -71% · 32% of their budget
- OIOMNIA INCone grant, 2017 · $9k
- MCMarshall Co Ministerial Allncone grant, 2020 · $7k
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.
Crisis intervention services and full shelter for victims and their children of domestic violence/sexual assault. Advocates for abused children in the court system.
Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma
Assisting troubled youths and families/local law enforcement
The organization is engaged in the service of rehabilitating users of alcohol and drugs. the center is also involved in community service programs, dui schools and out-patient counseling.
To promote the welfare of okmulgee county by providing temporary shelter and food for homeless and destitute persons
To provide long-term residential job programs for non-violent court ordered drug alcohol offenders in order to obtain and maintain abstinence as an alternative to incarceration.
To provide mental health and substance abuse counseling to chiildren, youth, families, and adults; to provide a 24 hr/7 days a week youth shelter and to work closely with other agencies to keep families together
To shelter and improve the quality of life for children, youth, and families in the corporations service area by addressing mental health needs through direct services of shelter, consultation, counseling, and education.
The agency provides counseling and support services for individuals in need of treatment of substance abuse. The Educational Department of the agency services at risk and disadvantaged children.
To provide a comprehensive array of social and educational services to children and families.
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
Provide a homelike atmosphere to help change the lives of drug and alcohol reliant individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Five Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texoma Autism and Behavior Intervention School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 40 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 FAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds HFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds Take Two Alternative Educational Services of Southern Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds SARA'S PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GLORIA AINSWORTH CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MADILL COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAOMI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG FIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIES IN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ARBUCKLE LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OARC CARTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INCA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARBUCKLE AREA COUNCIL BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP EQUINE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE HEART OF OKLAHOMA INC CAMP FIRE HEART OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds DESTINY RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY CREEK CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXOMA AUTISM AND BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIMENSION LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers ↗
- Who funds THE LANDING BRIDGE 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: Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc · McCrory Foundation · Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Charles B Goddard Foundation Trust · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · The Daube Family Foundation Inc · Beverly Westheimer Wellnitz Charitable Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Kohaw Foundation Inc · MHM Support Services
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 United Way of South Central Oklahoma Inc 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.
- Big Five Community Services Inc — 75% of income from government
- Inca Community Services Inc — 34% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% 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.