Oklahoma · Nonprofit
JAMES Inc
JAMES Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,587 to it, the largest being George Kaiser Family Foundation ($365,900). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JAMES Inc is better cushioned than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Morningcrest Healthcare Foundationshared funderslocal
- Honestly Incportfolio match
- Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trustportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of JAMES Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $151k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 JAMES 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
JAMES Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 JAMES Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 67% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
94% of JAMES Inc's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Morningcrest Healthcare Foundationshared funderslocalOK · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- Honestly Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harris Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wegener Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Potts Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avedis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arnall Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- El and Thelma Gaylord Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tulsa Area United Wayshared funderslocalOK · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 81 organizations near you
- Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundationshared funderslocalOK · backs 72 organizations that share your funders · funds 96 organizations near you
- Arts Alliance Tulsa Incshared funderslocalOK · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
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 JAMES Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $345 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $345
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 JAMES Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 JAMES 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.
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 JAMES Inc?
- JAMES Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,587 to it, the largest being George Kaiser Family Foundation ($365,900). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $633,587 in grants to JAMES Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES Inc?
- George Kaiser Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $365,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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