· Private foundation
William S & Ann Atherton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $761k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLASSICALLY FORMED INC | $510,500 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS | $150,000 |
| NAT'L COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $50,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $20,000 |
| JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| CONSTITUTING AMERICA | $12,000 |
| STATE POLICY NETWORK | $10,000 |
| USA SHOOTING | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- NCNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +81%
- CFCLASSICALLY FORMED INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×166 · 66% of their budget
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- FLFUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -87%
- 2C21 C AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $20k
- OHOne Hope Tulsa Incone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 93 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.
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- Who funds OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
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- Who funds GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC ↗
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- Who funds Mercatus Center 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 Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Arvest Foundation · The Robert S & Helen Grey Trippet Foundation Inc · John and Donnie Brock Foundation · Woodford Foundation · The Armstrong 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 William S & Ann Atherton Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% 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.
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