Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,215,350 to it, the largest being THE SAMUEL ROBERTS NOBLE FOUNDATION ($1,450,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc does
Mission
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Activities and resources devoted to the provision of relevant information to the general public concerning public policy issues affecting oklahoma citizens.
$2,023,463 spentof which $2,565 as grants94% of program spendingResearch and publications devoted to the provision of relevant information to the general public concerning public policy issues affecting oklahoma citizens.
$107,595 spent5% of program spendingFears fellowship dedicated to educating oklahomans on public policy issues.
$28,270 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,159,328.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.8M to $5.1M (−12%).
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 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Larry Parman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $199k → $1.7M.
12 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $491k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tulsa Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 37% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
32% of OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 807 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 2 related entities
- Access Opportunity - Sgo Inc · exempt
- Access Opportunity Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 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 COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC?
- OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,215,350 to it, the largest being THE SAMUEL ROBERTS NOBLE FOUNDATION ($1,450,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $10,215,350 in grants to OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC?
- THE SAMUEL ROBERTS NOBLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 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.
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 59 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