· Public charity
United Way of Southwest Oklahoma
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA mobilizes the communities we serve in ways no single agency, individual, or government can to enhance the ability of people to care.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $486k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIE DETTY YOUTH & FAM SVCS | $128,250 |
| SALVATION ARMY CORP | $100,271 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE LIVING | $78,358 |
| LAWTON FOOD BANK | $62,638 |
| MIGHT TECHNOLOGY & LEARNING CENTER | $62,379 |
| TEEN COURT INC | $53,672 |
| HEARTS THAT CARE | $43,731 |
| CASA OF SW OKLAHOMA | $34,886 |
| CHRISTIAN FAMILY COUNSELING CE | $34,094 |
| FAMILY PROMISE LAWTON | $23,463 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $13,145 |
| BOY SCOUTS LAST FRONTIER COUN | $12,393 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,185 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +92% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
- MDMARIE DETTY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $937k · revenue +92%
- CFCenter for Creative Living9× · 2017–2025 · $768k · revenue +89% · 27% of their budget
- LFLAWTON FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $549k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- MDMarie Detty Youth and Familyone grant, 2018 · $146k
- GPGREAT PLAINS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $71k · revenue -67%
- HTHEARTS THAT CARE VOLUNTEER HEALTH CLINIC INCone grant, 2017 · $71k · revenue -58%
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 purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
Trinity legal clinic of oklahoma inc is an oklahoma not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to answer god's call to seek justice for the poor. in an effort to address the overwhelming need for legal assistance to the poor, trinity…
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
Provide assistance to those in bona fide need of legal help relating to domestic violence.
Court Appointed Special Advocate
Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
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.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
to provide a safe, child-friendly environment for abused children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Lawton Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Roadback Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 MARIE DETTY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Living ↗
- Who funds LAWTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Teen Court Inc ↗
- Who funds Roadback Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Family Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THAT CARE VOLUNTEER HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 480 LAST FRONTIER COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CASA of Southwest Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma 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: The Priddy Foundation · Lawton Community Foundation Affiliated Fund of the Occf Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Veterans United Foundation · Arvest Foundation · McMahon Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Southwest Oklahoma 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.
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% 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.