Oklahoma · Nonprofit
KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER
KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,337 to it, the largest being MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($1,069,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $951k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Katheryne B Payne Education Center does
Mission
The organization's mission is to train teachers to prevent reading difficulties in children and to remediate dyslexia while serving as a resource and referral center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization serves teachers across the state of oklahoma by training in structured literacy, including a full range of language arts programs and "science of reading" curriculum programs. The center training program is accredited by the international multi-sensory structured language education council in training teachers to teach the basic language skills to indivduals with language learning differences, particularly dyslexia. The organization was established by parents seeking solutions to their children's reading difficulties. The organization is committed to ensuring that no child should struggle to read. For the fiscal year ended august 31, 2025; 735 individuals were trained, 1,642 of parent and school consultations and parent referral service hour were provided by the organization and 2,130 hours tutoring students with reading.disabilities and/or dyslexia. 49% of students receiving tutoring services live below the poverty line.
$592,871 spent$282,244 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $592,871.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $3.0M (+15%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Charlie Knight
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $54k → $241k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER’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
KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 87% · 2019 65% · 2020 78% · 2021 71% · 2022 52% · 2023 86% — 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
47% of KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
99% of KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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.
Organizations like KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER: 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 KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER?
- KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,337 to it, the largest being MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($1,069,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,541,337 in grants to KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER?
- MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA is the largest funder on record, with $1,069,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER 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 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