How much does William S & Ann Atherton Foundation give?

William S & Ann Atherton Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,265,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does William S & Ann Atherton Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (20%).

Who are William S & Ann Atherton Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum ($2.0M), Classically Formed Inc ($1.0M), Folds of Honor Foundation ($1.0M).

Does William S & Ann Atherton Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does William S & Ann Atherton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as William S & Ann Atherton Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc, Tulsa Community Foundation, One Gas Foundation Inc.

Where is William S & Ann Atherton Foundation based?

William S & Ann Atherton Foundation is based in OK.

William S & Ann Atherton Foundation

William S & Ann Atherton Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

William S & Ann Atherton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$511k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.8MHealth$2.3MArts & Culture$2.3MPublic Benefit$969kCivil Rights$205kPhilanthropy$134kHuman Services$129kSocial Science$70kOther$0

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $23k
$10k–50k11 grants · $182k
$50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$250k+2 grants · $761k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.0M · 60 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.0M

$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+27%

Still filing today

77%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsPublic BenefitAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

NC
NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +81%
CF
CLASSICALLY FORMED INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×166 · 66% of their budget
FO
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +48%

Funded once

FL
FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -87%
2C
21 C AMERICA
one grant, 2019 · $20k
OH
One Hope Tulsa Inc
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%

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.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Furman University

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.

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—

Augustana College

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…

Education

Fielding Graduate University

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.

—

University of New Haven

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…

Education

American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

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…

—

International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education

The Institute for Law and Strategy

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…

Civil Rights

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

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…

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 93 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

72/74

Grantees still filing

57/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$4,719,500Other$3,128,425Health$2,250,000Public Benefit$472,500Public Safety & Disaster$390,500Arts & Culture$235,000Civil Rights$96,500

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

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.

The Hardesty Family Foundation IncOK26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William S & Ann Atherton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William S & Ann Atherton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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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