Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA WATCH INC
OKLAHOMA WATCH INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,069,036 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($788,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $311k
What Oklahoma Watch Inc does
Mission
Through investigative, fact-driven journalism, we dig deep and examine significant issues facing our state. Our work engages all oklahomans, amplifies the discussion of issues and leads to change. We help develop the journalists and journalism of the future. In terms of values, we strive to be trustworthy, relentless, ethical, innovative, engaging and inclusive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program service accomplishments: publishing and distributing in-depth and investigative content. - accomplishments: oklahoma watch produced and published numerous pieces of content, including investigative stories, data sets, interactive graphics, still photos and videos. We distributed most of our stories to about 100 newspapers, digital sites, and radio and television news outlets across oklahoma for free republication in print and online, giving us an audience reach of well over 1 million. Our content focused on significant quality-of-life and public-policy issues in areas such as education, public health, criminal justice, mental health, state government, election issues, women and children.
$732,967 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $732,967.
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 2021 to 2022, from $563k to $251k (−55%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of OKLAHOMA WATCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Joe Hight
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $74k → $378k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 WATCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 WATCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 WATCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 81% · 2019 63% · 2020 53% · 2021 62% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% — 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
29% of OKLAHOMA WATCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
66% of OKLAHOMA WATCH INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $695k 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.
Against its field
OKLAHOMA WATCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like OKLAHOMA WATCH 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OKLAHOMA WATCH 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 WATCH INC?
- OKLAHOMA WATCH INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,069,036 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($788,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA WATCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,069,036 in grants to OKLAHOMA WATCH INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA WATCH INC?
- INASMUCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $788,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA WATCH 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.
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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 31 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