Oklahoma · Nonprofit
ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC
ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,905 to it, the largest being LYON FOUNDATION ($249,307). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- McAnaw Family Foundationlocal
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio match
- Sourceamericaportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 85% · 2018 84% · 2019 80% · 2020 83% · 2021 84% · 2022 78% · 2023 82% · 2024 80% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $85k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC’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
ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 87% · 2022 62% · 2023 52% — 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
80% of ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- McAnaw Family FoundationlocalOK · funds 14 organizations near you
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sourceamericaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Disability Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- El and Thelma Gaylord Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sarkeys Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tulsa Area United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Phil & Roberta Kirschner Affiliated Fund of the Occf Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harris Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank Nigro Columbian Foundation Supporting People With Intellectual Disabiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC?
- ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,905 to it, the largest being LYON FOUNDATION ($249,307). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $445,905 in grants to ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC?
- LYON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $249,307 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITYWORKS OF OKLAHOMA INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing