Oklahoma · Nonprofit
EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES
EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES (Oklahoma) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,019 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($124,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $228k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $184k
- Net assets
- $232k
What Educational Alternatives does
Mission
Training and education for law enforcement, youth and others to make our communities safer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Oklahoma Challenge - The Oklahoma Challenge is a peer-to-peer leadership program that empowers teens to educate their peers about the dangers of distracted driving and the importance of seat belt use. The program's goal is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities among drivers ages 16-24, the age group most affected by traffic-related deaths. During the year, the organization hosted large and small events across Oklahoma, reaching thousands of students. We also expanded our online contests, making them more robust to increase participation and broaden statewide engagement. All Oklahoma Challenge events are offered free of charge to schools and students, ensuring accessibility and maximum impact.
$190,505 spent98% of program spendingCLEET Certifying Classes - We offer two CLEET certified online classes for law enforcement and security guards for maintenance of their required CEU's. We average approximately 35 students per month in the classes. The cost per class is $40 which provides an accessible, cost-effective way for these populations to maintain their required certifications.
$3,803 spent$11,745 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,308.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $154k to $243k (+57%).
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: 2022 72% · 2023 0% · 2024 73% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Lori Lovett
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $29k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES’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
EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
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 EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
68% of EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES'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 $59k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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
EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47k on record.
- Educational Services$47k
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 EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES: 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 EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES?
- EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES (Oklahoma) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,019 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($124,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $184,019 in grants to EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $124,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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