Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,498,068 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($1,211,403). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation does
Mission
We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. May all who leave here know the impact of violence. May this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Memorial museum - an interactive museum that tells the story and teaches the lessons of the bombing of the alfred p. Murrah federal building in oklahoma city, ok, on april 19, 1995. Over 3 million people have experienced the museum since its dedication by president george w. Bush on february 19, 2001. Visitors come each year from all 50 states and countries around the world. The museum immerses visitors in the story through written text, video footage, thousands of artifacts, and live interaction through programming such as first person - stories of hope, in which a family member, survivor, or first responder recounts their experiences from april 19, 1995, and allows visitors to ask questions.
$4,788,288 spent$1,841,088 earned by the program48% of program spendingOutdoor symbolic memorial - a 3.3 acre memorial embodying the mission statement elements of remembrance, education, hope, healing, and resiliency. Over 4.75 million people from all 50 states and countries around the world have visited since its dedication by president william j. Clinton on april 19, 2000.
$2,176,459 spent22% of program spendingEducation, outreach, and collections - includes programs designed to show the impact of violence and underscore the senselessness of using violence as a means to resolve conflicts and effect change. The foundation also collects and houses artifacts related to the bombing. In 2024, our programs serviced over 20,000 participants. Programs include inasmuch uncover - discover lab, virtual hope trunk, first person - stories of hope, student essay contest, better conversations, virtual archives, lesson plans, field trips, eyewitness tours and professional development workshops for educators, administrators and other interested parties. The archives staff oversee a collection of 2.78 million artifacts. During 2024, the staff also assisted 9 researchers.
$2,974,593 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,939,340.
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 2018 to 2019, from $38M to $46M (+21%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
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
Kari F Watkins
President and CEO
Board chair
Susan Chambers Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $72k → $743k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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 CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 53% · 2019 59% · 2020 78% · 2021 58% · 2022 80% · 2023 68% — 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
33% of OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
87% of OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $499k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$89k
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 OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
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
92% 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 OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: 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 CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,498,068 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($1,211,403). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,498,068 in grants to OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- INASMUCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,211,403 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL 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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing