How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Oklahoma?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma, currently Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Freedom Together Foundation, New Venture Fund. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Oklahoma from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma?

$33M reached 57 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oklahoma, from 159 funders. 28% came from funders also based in Oklahoma.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Oklahoma · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma

Most of it comes from outside Oklahoma: only 28% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$33M

granted

organizations

28%

from in-state

The short version

159 funders gave $33M to 57 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oklahoma across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
28% of that came from funders also based in Oklahoma; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma is Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, at $8M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Americans for Fair Treatment Inc, at $11M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oklahoma, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$8M 2Freedom Together Foundation$2M 3New Venture Fund$1M 4The Dunn Foundation$1M 5The Concord Fund$1M 6Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc$1M 7American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1M 8George Kaiser Family Foundation$1M 9Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation$900k 10Tulsa Community Foundation$865k

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oklahoma that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Americans for Fair Treatment Inc$11M

47 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$6M

Justice for Greenwood Foundation Inc$3M American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$2M Family Shelter of Southern Oklahoma$2M Oklahomans for Equality Inc$2M People for Opportunity Inc$2M The Freedom Center of Okc LLC$1M Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd$1M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Oklahoma

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Start with the funders already active in Oklahoma
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma are Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Freedom Together Foundation, New Venture Fund. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
72% of civil rights and advocacy money in Oklahoma comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Oklahoma.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Oklahoma?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma, currently Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Freedom Together Foundation, New Venture Fund. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Oklahoma from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Oklahoma?: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oklahoma, $8M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Oklahoma?: $33M reached 57 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oklahoma, from 159 funders. 28% came from funders also based in Oklahoma.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.