Oklahoma · Nonprofit
SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC
SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,820,270 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($937,767). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Smart Start Central Oklahoma Inc does
Mission
To build a community that supports parents and caregivers as a child's first and most influential teacher.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early birds - early birds is a free school readiness program for parents and caregivers of young children and community partners in oklahoma. Parents and caregivers attend classes three times per year where they learn about their child's health and development, purposeful parenting, and opportunities for everyday learning. At each class parents receive a kit of educational toys and books tailored to their child's age. In 2022-2023, early birds kits were given to over 1,500 families. Parents who participate in early birds report reading and playing more with their children. Furthermore, early birds children consistently outperform their peers on kindergarten entry assessments.
$513,998 spent$84,959 earned by the program70% of program spendingCommunity engagement - the mark twain elementary parent resource room (prr) provides educational resources and programs for parents of mark twain students. A coordinator helps lead school readiness programming and other activities for parents and their young children. Ssco also operates a community room at the harbison education center next door to mark twain. Examples of programming include community meals and gatherings, healthy activities, art activities, literacy classes, parenting classes, computer access, and english and spanish classes. Community engagement - the community connector is a position funded by a contract with the oklahoma state department of health to improve the coordination of homevisiting services in oklahoma county. Ssco conducts regular outreach to recruit families and to inform all members of the community about the availability and benefits of home-based family support programs. Ssco also holds regular meetings for all home visiting providers to promote collaboration and cross referrals. The community connector makes an average of 100 referrals each year to home visiting programs on behalf of parents looking for services. The community connector also…
$176,612 spent24% of program spendingChildcare provider program in partnership with the oklahoma partnership for school readiness, early birds curriculum and educational kits were adapted for childcare settings, both center and home based, to ensure oklahoma childcare providers throughout the state are well equipped to prepare young children for school.
$39,942 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $730,552.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $151k (−88%).
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 15% · 2018 8% · 2019 6% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Anna Davis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $102k → $251k.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 43% · 2020 39% · 2021 55% · 2022 53% · 2023 40% — 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
58% of SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
100% of SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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. $236k 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.
Organizations like SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC
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In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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 SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC?
- SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,820,270 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($937,767). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,820,270 in grants to SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC?
- INASMUCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $937,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART START CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 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 29 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