Oklahoma · Nonprofit
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $740,166 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($429,545). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $740k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Great Expectations Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide teachers and administrators with the skills needed to create harmony and excitement within the school atmosphere, elements that are basic for inspiring students to pursue academic excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core training programs sessions are taught by teachers who successfully implement the foundation's pratices in their own classrooms and feature practical strategies educators can take back to their clqassroom each year. School year seminars consist of regional meetings, onsite training, presentations and follow up services that are customized to meet the specific training needs and schedules of educators. Coaching work is done individually with schools to help them implement great expectations methodology into their classrooms. Mentors are the ambassadors to spreading great expectations methodology throughout oklahoma and the nation.
$1,241,156 spent98% of program spendingCore training programs sessions are taught by teachers who successfully implement the foundation's pratices in their own classrooms and feature practical strategies educators can take back to their clqassroom each year. School year seminars consist of regional meetings, onsite training, presentations and follow up services that are customized to meet the specific training needs and schedules of educators. Coaching work is done individually with schools to help them implement great expectations methodology into their classrooms. Mentors are the ambassadors to spreading great expectations methodology throughout oklahoma and the nation.
$24,287 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,265,443.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.2M (−19%).
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: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 32% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
John Harrington
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $129k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION 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
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 75% · 2019 79% · 2020 53% · 2021 69% · 2022 55% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
59% of GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC'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 $304k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $436k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION 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 GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC?
- GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $740,166 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($429,545). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $740,166 in grants to GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION INC?
- OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $429,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION 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 10 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