Oklahoma · Nonprofit
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,034,730 to it, the largest being ALLEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,986,043). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc does
Mission
To tell the extraordinary stories of settling the Cherokee Strip further development of Northwest Oklahoma sharing the inspiring lessons of leadership with future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$179,409 spent$222,863 earned by the program100% of program spendingTurkey Creek School - Area 4th grade classes participate in a day of living history held in the authentic one room school house. Students participate in the typical daily studies as children in 1910 taught by the village schoolmarm. The curriculum taught meets the Oklahoma core standards for 4th grade students.
$4,176 earned by the programPioneer Life- Area 3rd grade classes participate in a day of living history learning about the process of settling land during the 1893 Land Run and participating in the daily chores of homesteading in the Cherokee outlet. The curriculum taught meets the Oklahoma Core Standards for 3rd grade students.
$2,285 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,409.
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 2021 to 2022, from $884k to $1.2M (+41%).
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.
84% of Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
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
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
Marcus Stephens
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $11k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $779k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cherokee Strip Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center 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
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 80% · 2021 91% · 2022 99% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record — $1k federal, $4k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1k
- Approved Program Reimbursement$4k
- Business Support Services$650
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 Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc?
- Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,034,730 to it, the largest being ALLEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,986,043). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,034,730 in grants to Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Inc?
- ALLEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,986,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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