Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE
OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,830 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION ($378,067). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $422k
- Net assets
- $317k
What Oklahoma Guardian Ad Litem Institute does
Mission
Our primary mission is to provide free legal representation in family courts to children from low income families so that they have a voice in the courtroom about their past, present and future. Our secondary mission is to provide education, training and resources to other court advocates and experts in ways that they can help children in family courts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child services and advocacy - we provide free, direct attorney services for children in low income families by investigating all issues relating to the children; interviewing the parents; talking to the children; interviewing independent witnesses; attending and participating in all court hearings; writing formal reports to the courts; advocating and speaking for the children in courts; and even filing necessary court documents to ensure that the best interests of all children are considered by the court when making a determination in family court about the future care and custody of the children.
$160,776 spent100% of program spendingTraining & education - we offer training and continuing legal education courses for all guardians ad litem and court experts in oklahoma. We also offer extensive courses on domestic violence awareness and education to help all court experts meet the legal requirement for this training.
$600 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,376.
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 2022 to 2023, from $196k to $294k (+50%).
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: 2018 58% · 2019 62% · 2020 55% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 84% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $80k.
2 of 8 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.
From the IRS filings of OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE’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 GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 62% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% 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
99% of OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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 GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.
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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 GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE: 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 GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE?
- OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,830 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION ($378,067). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $421,830 in grants to OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE?
- OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $378,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA GUARDIAN AD LITEM INSTITUTE 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 8 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