Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC
OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,272 to it, the largest being Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd ($17,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Oklahomans for the Arts Inc does
Mission
To advance arts and culture in all communities throughout oklahoma.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To promote arts education, to increase understanding of and support for public funding for the arts, and to advocate for public funding for the arts.
$120,835 spent$1,168 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $120,835.
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 2018 to 2019, from $59k to $111k (+89%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 21% · 2019 13% · 2021 30% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% · 2024 22% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Kym Koch Thompson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $16k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $415k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC’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
OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% — 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
14% of OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
65% of OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS 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. $22 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$52k
- Registration - Agency Direct$465
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 OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS 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 OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC?
- OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,272 to it, the largest being Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd ($17,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $49,272 in grants to OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC?
- Guy and Shirley Lewis Foundation Ltd is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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