Oklahoma · Nonprofit
BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,370 to it, the largest being BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($568,173). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $995k
- Net assets
- $449k
What Bartlesville Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
To provide financial resources, cultivate community partnerships, and celebrate achievements to engage students, empower teachers, and enrich learning within bartlesville public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
District initiatives - the foundation works closely with the bartlesville public schools district to make sure our funding priorities continue to align with the district's priorities. To that end, we occasionally provide seed money to get new programs up and running in the district or provide funding for a temporary need. These initiatives are outside of the foundation's core programs. Our top-funded "district initiatives" this year include: funds to expand the aviation program at the high school, purchasing flight simulators for students and classroom upgrades. Innovative programs (this year our board decided to use these funds to support the implementation of a character and leadership development program for students called leader in me. It is modeled after stephen covey's 7 habits of highly effective people. Ranch heights playground improvements - with the expansion of ranch heights elementary school, our district needed some funding to improve and expand its playground. School safety (school resource officer training and salaries): school safety is one of our school district's top priorities. Over the past few years, our schools have invested in additional school resource…
$223,124 spent70% of program spendingTeacher grants - through the teacher grants program, the foundation funds innovative programming and equipment in the classroom, funds visits from experts from a variety of subject areas, and funds teachers' attendance at and travel to conferences all over the country.
$46,127 spent14% of program spendingImagination library - the dolly parton imagination library is a book- gifting program for young children (0-5 years old) that has been in operation since 1995 and is active across the world. Each month, books are mailed directly to the enrolled child's home at no cost to the parent until their 5th birthday. The books are mailed directly to the child in order to create a sense of excitement and bond with the books. The foundation covers the cost associated with bringing this program to bartlesville children.
$19,764 spent6% of program spendingBruins on the run, junior achievement/biz town and special projects
$30,120 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,135.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $228k to $444k (+95%).
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.
96% of BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Chris Batchelder
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $168k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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
BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 86% · 2021 37% · 2022 80% · 2023 58% — 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
43% of BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
72% of BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $279k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $716k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: 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 BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $995,370 to it, the largest being BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($568,173). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $995,370 in grants to BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $568,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 14 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