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PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION

PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,659 to it, the largest being CHESTER EDWIN NASH AND MARY NASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($394,589). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.5M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$24M
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Panhandle State Foundation does

Mission

To provide educational experiences that are designed to enrich the personal lives of students and to prepare them for roles in agriculture, business, education, government, and industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The foundation provides funding to the oklahoma panhandle state university to support various education programs and projects.

    $953,506 spentof which $828,715 as grants
    62% of program spending
  2. The foundation provides funding to the oklahoma panhandle state university (opsu) for student scholarships. General donations to opsu for scholarships: $230,000opsu selects the scholarship recipients.foundation program and endowment scholarships: $344,749the foundation selects scholarship recipients through an application process and donor criteria. The total number of scholarships awarded by the foundation in fall 2024 was 271 and spring 2025 was 243.

    $574,749 spentof which $574,749 as grants
    38% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,528,255.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 130 ($2.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.5M) Net assets 98 ($14M)2019 Revenue 185 ($3.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.5M) Net assets 126 ($18M)2020 Revenue 88 ($1.7M) Expenses 81 ($1.2M) Net assets 124 ($18M)2021 Revenue 107 ($2.0M) Expenses 82 ($1.3M) Net assets 143 ($21M)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.9M) Expenses 93 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($19M)2023 Revenue 115 ($2.2M) Expenses 50 ($774k) Net assets 147 ($21M)2024 Revenue 169 ($3.2M) Expenses 33 ($508k) Net assets 158 ($23M)2025 Revenue 184 ($3.5M) Expenses 109 ($1.7M) Net assets 170 ($24M)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (109)Net assets (170)Peer revenue range

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 $14M to $18M (+29%).

$15M
$14M
$18M
$18M
$21M
$19M
$21M
$23M
$25M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

37% of PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$367k
’17
$990k
’18
$2.0M
’19
$435k
’20
$784k
’21
$453k
’22
$1.4M
’23
$2.7M
’24
$1.8M
’25
8.2
months of
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

Chyanna Black

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined······+0+2+0
No longer listed······114
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $90k → $514k.

7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION’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

PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45% 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 PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION.

32%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 38% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 77% — 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

60% of PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 4 states in all.

NY
MO
KS
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Oklahoma Panhandle State University · exempt
  • Allie Mitchell Charitable Remainder Unitrust · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION?
PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,659 to it, the largest being CHESTER EDWIN NASH AND MARY NASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($394,589). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,242,659 in grants to PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION?
CHESTER EDWIN NASH AND MARY NASH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $394,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION 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 17 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