Oklahoma · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA (Oklahoma) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,530,783 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($14,388,090). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$140M
Recipients
742
Contributions on record
$49M
Donors on record
90
Payments out run 2.8x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Love Meyer Family Foundationshared funders
- Eddie Foundation Incportfolio 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: 2021 76% · 2022 91% · 2023 77% · 2024 30% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $988k → $6.0M.
17 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $28k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Communities Foundation of Oklahoma). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA raised.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
72% of COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 87 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchOK · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 128 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Love Meyer Family Foundationshared fundersOK · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Eddie Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rainbolt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tom and Brenda McDaniel Charitable Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dobson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Presbyterian Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ann Lacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sarkeys Foundationshared fundersOK · backs 115 organizations that share your funders
- Morningcrest Healthcare Foundationshared fundersOK · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Wegener Foundation Incshared fundersOK · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Tulsa Area United Wayshared fundersOK · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$16k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: 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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA (Oklahoma) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,530,783 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($14,388,090). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $48,530,783 in grants to COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $14,388,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA 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 87funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing