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FRIENDS OF OETA INC

FRIENDS OF OETA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,771,080 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($9,117,545). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.3M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$9.8M
Net assets
$62M
13/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Friends of Oeta Inc does

Mission

To raise funds and support the activities and programs of the oklahoma educational television authority by receiving, investing, managing, and expending non-state-appropriated funds and properties.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Receiving, investing, managing, and expending non-state-appropriated funds for, and on behalf of, oeta.

    $5,493,343 spentof which $5,493,343 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,493,343.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($8.2M) Expenses 100 ($6.5M) Net assets 100 ($43M)2021 Revenue 173 ($14M) Expenses 99 ($6.4M) Net assets 123 ($52M)2022 Revenue 90 ($7.4M) Expenses 109 ($7.1M) Net assets 108 ($46M)2023 Revenue 103 ($8.5M) Expenses 107 ($6.9M) Net assets 119 ($51M)2024 Revenue 120 ($9.8M) Expenses 111 ($7.2M) Net assets 135 ($57M)2025 Revenue 101 ($8.3M) Expenses 111 ($7.2M) Net assets 147 ($62M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (101)Expenses (111)Net assets (147)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 2020 to 2021, from $43M to $53M (+22%).

$43M
$53M
$46M
$51M
$58M
$63M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of FRIENDS OF OETA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’20
$7.8M
’21
$355k
’22
$1.5M
’23
$2.6M
’24
$1.1M
’25
14
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

Shawn Black

Interim executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

202020212022202320242025
Listed11111291718
Joined·+0+1+1+9+1
No longer listed·00410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $124k → $1.7M.

6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FRIENDS OF OETA 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

FRIENDS OF OETA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

97% 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 FRIENDS OF OETA INC.

93%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 81% · 2020 41% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

43% of FRIENDS OF OETA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

FRIENDS OF OETA INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 8 states in all.

NJ
VA
DE
KS
NC
DC
OK
TX

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $288k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF OETA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve13.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF OETA 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 4%Fundraising 20%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Oeta · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF OETA INC?
FRIENDS OF OETA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,771,080 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($9,117,545). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF OETA INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $9,771,080 in grants to FRIENDS OF OETA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF OETA INC?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $9,117,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF OETA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 25 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