Oklahoma · Nonprofit
36 DEGREES NORTH CO
36 DEGREES NORTH CO (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,669 to it, the largest being CORETZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($552,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What 36 Degrees North Co does
Mission
Education activities will include classes, workshops, and speakers for aspiring entrepreneurs in group and individual settings conducted by the organization's staff, representatives of partner organizations including oklahoma state university and other academic institutions, and industry experts. Education activities will occur multiple times per week throughout the year and at various times of day in order to reach the broadest audience of potential entrepreneurs. Education activities will support aspiring entrepreneurs by developing expertise specific to a particular trade, interest, or experience not otherwise readily attainable.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
36 degrees north holds educational, networking, and mentoring programs for entrepreneurs and growing businesses. This includes classes, workshops, speakers, and one-on-one office hours with the organization's staff and community partners.
$1,991,789 spent$4,155,405 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,991,789.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $8.0M (+125%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of 36 DEGREES NORTH CO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Thomas Devon Laney
President & CEO
Board chair
Reid Spears
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $125k → $570k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest George Kaiser Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money 36 DEGREES NORTH CO raised.
From the IRS filings of 36 DEGREES NORTH CO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
36 DEGREES NORTH CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of 36 DEGREES NORTH CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of 36 DEGREES NORTH CO's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
36 DEGREES NORTH CO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding 36 DEGREES NORTH CO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $425k on record — $375k federal, $50k state.
- Department of Commerce$375k
- Advertising$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like 36 DEGREES NORTH CO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 36 DEGREES NORTH CO: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 36 DEGREES NORTH CO?
- 36 DEGREES NORTH CO (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,669 to it, the largest being CORETZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($552,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 36 DEGREES NORTH CO have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,495,669 in grants to 36 DEGREES NORTH CO, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 36 DEGREES NORTH CO?
- CORETZ FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $552,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 36 DEGREES NORTH CO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing