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OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE
OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,548,024 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,222,002). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wegener Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Payne County Inclocal
- Riggs Employee's Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 26% · 2024 38% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $65k → $621k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE’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 LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 70% · 2021 87% · 2022 60% · 2023 95% — 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
75% of OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
71% of OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wegener Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchOK · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Payne County InclocalOK · funds 21 organizations near you
- Riggs Employee's Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lemon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blanche Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Potts Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philip Boyle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of South Central Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles B Goddard Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faye Allene Rife Brown FoundationlocalOK · funds 10 organizations near you
- El and Thelma Gaylord Foundationshared fundersOK · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
- Lionel and Bea Harris FoundationlocalOK · funds 10 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.
- Assistance Payments$38k
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 LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95%
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 LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE?
- OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,548,024 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,222,002). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,548,024 in grants to OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE?
- OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,222,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA LIONS BOYS RANCH INC dba LIONS MEADOWS OF HOPE 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 15funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing