Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC
OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,000 to it, the largest being PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC ($390,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $486k
What Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc does
Mission
The mission of the oklahoma appleseed center for law and justice is to achieve justice and opportunity for all oklahomans through structural litigation, legal research, community organizing, and legislative change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Oklahoma Appleseed has pursued initiatives in the areas of criminal justice reform for survivors of domestic violence, educational justice, and voter engagement. These initiatives have included studies and reports, community organizing, a podcast, and policy oriented litigation.
$652,587 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $652,587.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $179k to $419k (+134%).
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 OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $155k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE 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
OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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.
Against its field
OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE 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
50% 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 OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE 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 OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC?
- OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,000 to it, the largest being PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC ($390,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,022,000 in grants to OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC?
- PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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