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O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION
O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $308,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $497k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $308k
- Net assets
- $852k
What O R a Education Foundation Dba Oklahoma Hospitality Foundation does
Mission
To provide scholarships to students pursuing an education in the culinary, resturant management, lodging, and hospitality industry. Sponsor information events and activities open to the public which focus on the hospitality industry; promote education in the industry.support a limited amount of benevolence to the poor, distressed, underpriveleged, or to those suffering from a personal calamity such as a serious illness or death in the family.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Career initiative program expense education program, which creates positive connections between school, work and future employment of young people and impacts workforce development for the hospitality industry
$72,015 spent$72,922 earned by the program31% of program spendingThirst for a cause celebrates great food and wine while raising money for local restaurant workers without health insurance.
$50,000 spent21% of program spendingAwards dinner expense and other miscellaneous expenses were incurred to present the awards and raise revenue by the silent auction as well as administer the foundation.
$45,297 spent$46,918 earned by the program19% of program spendingTo provide scholarships to students.
$34,450 spent$21,152 earned by the program15% of program spendingOdyssey dinners provides education, training & experience
$31,656 spent$49,894 earned by the program14% of program spendingVictim impact fund expenses provide funds for food service individuals who have been victims of crime.
Oklahoma restaurant employee relief fund- in cooperation with the lobeck taylor family foundation in tulsa and the cresap family foundation in okc, the ora helped facilitate the marketing, application process, and distribution of 649 grants equaling $524,000 in employee relief grants for restaurant employees financially impacted by the covid-19 pandemic. The final decision on who receives funding came from the lobeck taylor family foundation and the cresap family foundation.
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $233,418.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $953k (−13%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
James Leewright
CEO
Board chair
Ed Lynn
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $170k → $60k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION’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
O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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
84% of O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k 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.
Organizations like O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION
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In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Oklahoma Restaurant Association · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION?
- O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $308,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $308,000 in grants to O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like O R A EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA OKLAHOMA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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