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CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC

CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,500 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR A FREE SOCIETY INC ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$128k
Net assets
$19k
1/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Catalyst Oklahoma Inc does

Mission

Pro-growth public policies based on the free market principles that are the foundation of a long-term, vibrant economy for oklahoma. Catalyst oklahoma's primary goal is the education of citizens, opinion leaders, and policy makers on the importance of sound fiscal and economic policy to job growth, financial well-being, and overall quality of life for all oklahomans.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Research and promotion of pro-growth public policies based on freemarket principles.

    $19,219 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,219.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($903k) Expenses 100 ($854k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 191 ($1.7M) Expenses 163 ($1.4M) Net assets 681 ($385k)2019 Revenue 1 ($10k) Expenses 46 ($389k) Net assets 10 ($6k)2020 Revenue 2 ($20k) Expenses 2 ($21k) Net assets 8 ($5k)2021 Revenue 29 ($261k) Expenses 27 ($229k) Net assets 65 ($37k)2022 Revenue 86 ($773k) Expenses 83 ($704k) Net assets 187 ($105k)2023 Revenue 47 ($424k) Expenses 39 ($330k) Net assets 353 ($199k)2024 Revenue 113 ($1.0M) Expenses 137 ($1.2M) Net assets 85 ($48k)2025 Revenue 1 ($5k) Expenses 4 ($34k) Net assets 34 ($19k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (4)Net assets (34)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $417k to $6k (−99%).

$59k
$417k
$6k
$5k
$37k
$105k
$199k
$48k
$19k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$49k
’17
$328k
’18
−$379k
’19
−$905
’20
$32k
’21
$69k
’22
$94k
’23
−$151k
’24
−$29k
’25
0.5
months of
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

Allen Wright

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

201720182021202220232024
Listed444444
Joined·+0·+0+3+1
No longer listed·0·031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of CATALYST 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

CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC.

78%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 3 states in all.

VA
KS
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’21
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−579% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−48% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC?
CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,500 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR A FREE SOCIETY INC ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $127,500 in grants to CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATALYST OKLAHOMA INC?
ALLIANCE FOR A FREE SOCIETY INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATALYST 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 4 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