Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE
OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $842,594 to it, the largest being THE ANNE AND HENRY ZARROW FOUNDATION ($122,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $843k
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence does
Mission
The mission of the foundation is to encourage and recognize academic excellence in oklahoma's public schools. In accordance with this mission, the foundation is created to recognize and encourage excellence in teaching and scholarship in the state of oklahoma, to nurture and support a favorable climate in the state of oklahoma for the teaching profession and for the attainment of excellence by students, and to foster and encourage the development of local school foundations in oklahoma communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic awards program - encompasses two initiatives: 1) academic all-state awards - cash awards to 100 academic all-state scholars selected from oklahoma's public high school graduating seniors. 2) medal for excellence - cash awards to each of five categories including one teacher at each elementary, secondary, regional university/community college and research university levels and one public school administrator.
$534,676 spentof which $175,500 as grants$30,968 earned by the program74% of program spendingThe oklahoma school foundations network provides on-call support, training, and networking opportunities for oklahoma school foundation leaders and volunteers. In addition, the program annually presents outstanding program awards recognizing successful programs sponsored or administrated by public school foundations.
$93,791 spentof which $3,000 as grants13% of program spendingTeacher professional development - pre-k through 12th grade teachers have the opportunity to pursue self-designed professional learning through a fund for teachers fellowship.
$61,048 spent8% of program spendingThe boren mentoring initiative provides start-up grants for new and developing mentoring programs and opportunity grants are awarded to support strategic needs of k-12 mentoring organizations in oklahoma.
$30,521 spentof which $21,000 as grants4% of program spendingColonial williamsburg teacher institute - select oklahoma fifth and eighth grade teachers to attend the colonial williamsburg teacher institute each summer in the restored capital city of 18th century virginia.
$15,000 earned by the programOther
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $720,036.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.0M to $9.7M (+22%).
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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Inbody
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $98k → $67k.
4 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $124k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE raised.
From the IRS filings of OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 22% · 2019 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 40% — 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
60% of OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
89% of OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- Approved Program Reimbursement$5k
- Exhibitions,Shows,Spec.Events$5k
- Educational Services$3k
- Advertising$1k
- Photographic Supplies$12
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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE
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
64%
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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: 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 FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE?
- OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $842,594 to it, the largest being THE ANNE AND HENRY ZARROW FOUNDATION ($122,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $842,594 in grants to OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE?
- THE ANNE AND HENRY ZARROW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $122,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE 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 39 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