Oklahoma · Nonprofit
LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY
LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,450 to it, the largest being MCMAHON FOUNDATION ($544,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $394k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $375k
What Lawton Enhancement Trust Authority does
Mission
Beautifying and aesthetically enhancing the appearance of the city of lawton by wisely spending public and private funds entrusted to it by governmental and non-governmental sources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Beautifying and aesthetically enhancing the appearance of the city of lawton.
$451,440 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $451,440.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $694k (−56%).
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 27% · 2018 40% · 2019 14% · 2020 52% · 2021 72% · 2022 70% · 2023 33% · 2024 42% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Barry Ezerski
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $63k → $168k.
From the IRS filings of LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY’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
LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 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.
Where its funders are
91% of LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY
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
99% 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 LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY: 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 LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY?
- LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,450 to it, the largest being MCMAHON FOUNDATION ($544,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $601,450 in grants to LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY?
- MCMAHON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $544,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWTON ENHANCEMENT TRUST AUTHORITY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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