Oklahoma · Nonprofit
POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC
POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,368,705 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,535,486). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Positive Tomorrows Inc does
Mission
Positive Tomorrows Inc. Is oklahoma's only school and social service agency specifically for families experiencing homelessness. We help children and families to succeed by breaking down barriers, supporting families, and providing trauma-informed education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Positive tomorrows is oklahoma's only school and social service agency specifically for families experiencing homelessness. We help children and families to succeed, and we do it in three main ways:1. By breaking down barriers to learning like hunger, lack of basic necessities, medical care, and transportation.2. By supporting families so they can improve their housing, employment, and overall quality of life.3. By providing a differentiated, trauma-informed education to every student, complete with enriching, extracurricular opportunities.this year positive tomorrows served 190 students in its education program, and provided 17,795 transportation services, 47,186 meals provided, and 8,111 basic necessities were distributed.
$3,123,317 spentof which $9,402 as grants71% of program spendingPositive tomorrows hosts an extracurricular program that consists of daily after-school activities driven by student choice. During school breaks - fall, winter, spring, and summer - day camps ensure students continue to learn, grow, and avoid the academic summer slide. Former students are also invited to attend break camps as a resource for our transitioned families. Activities include band, yoga, art, swimming lessons, french classes, gardening, fishing, chess, museums, tennis, ice skating, scouts, movies, coding, piano lessons, cooking, soccer, college tours, journalism, drama, golf, ballet, film making, photography, and more. This year, 155 students participated in after-school programs, and 225 participated in break camps.
$488,775 spentof which $6,911 as grants11% of program spendingWhile students learn in the classroom, our family support department works with families to teach them how to become self-sufficient. Our case managers assess families' immediate needs like food, clothing, and shelter first, then focus on long-term planning. Case managers help families increase their income, employment, and ultimately aim to help them obtain stable housing. By focusing on the entire family, we make it possible for children to learn. This year we served 191 families. 72% of families maintained or improved their employment status, 98% improved or maintained stable housing, and 82% showed an increase in income levels. 304 medical checkups, dental & hearing screenings, and eye exams were provided, and 1,434 therapy sessions were provided.
$816,663 spentof which $114,660 as grants18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,428,755.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.7M to $12M (+223%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 21% · 2022 20% · 2023 7% · 2024 6% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Margaret Creighton
Executive director
Board chair
Gary Armbruster
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $362k → $1.1M.
18 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $2.3M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Positive Tomorrows Villa Campus Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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
POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
52% 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 POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 49% · 2019 53% · 2020 16% · 2021 13% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
46% of POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
69% of POSITIVE TOMORROWS 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. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$12k
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 POSITIVE TOMORROWS 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Positive Tomorrows Villa Campus Inc · exempt
- Positive Tomorrows Endowment Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POSITIVE TOMORROWS 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 POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC?
- POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,368,705 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,535,486). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $9,368,705 in grants to POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,535,486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POSITIVE TOMORROWS 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.
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 112 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