Oklahoma · Nonprofit
CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION
CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,859 to it, the largest being Arvest Foundation ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Civic Center Foundation does
Mission
To ensure a strong and vibrant performing arts presence in the city through continued capital improvements of the civic center and community-wide educational outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Theatre productions - during the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, the civic center music hall hosted 225 performances, 197 other events, and 243,493 patrons and guests were in attendance. The foundation contributed an additional $92,014 towards the 2017 go bond project renovation, totaling $2,861,090 contributed. Additionally, the foundation spent an additional $1,107,919 on capital improvements including the replacement of the meinders hall of mirrors flooring and a down payment on state of the art digital led signage for outside the building.
$1,454,958 spentof which $1,199,933 as grants$3,586,698 earned by the program28% of program spendingPresentations - during the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, the Civic Center Foundation presented with okc broadway 12 events and 107,169 patrons and guests were in attendance.
$1,071,245 spent$1,247,098 earned by the program21% of program spendingRose state productions - during the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, the Civic Center Foundation managed 49 events at the rose sate performing arts center (formerly hudiburg performing arts center) and 57,114 patrons and guests were in attendance.
$449,980 spent$781,077 earned by the program9% of program spendingSuite lease, food and beverage, and management fee revenue.
$2,134,785 spent$2,532,055 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,110,968.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.6M to $11M (+204%).
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 56% · 2022 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Gray
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $11k.
1 of 4 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: $171k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ssm Health Care of Oklahoma Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CIVIC CENTER 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
CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 89% · 2023 95% — 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
CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION draws 87% 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. $359 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
CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CIVIC CENTER 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Civic Center Endowment Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIVIC CENTER 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 CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION?
- CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,859 to it, the largest being Arvest Foundation ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,859 in grants to CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION?
- Arvest Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIC CENTER 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.
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