Oklahoma · Nonprofit
THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC
THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,864 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($33,980). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $88k
What The Christmas Connection Inc does
Mission
To serve families in need by providing a dignified shopping experience at no cost.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Christmas connection - many parents simply can't afford christmas gifts and basic winter clothing for their children, but we believe no family should be deprived of christmas-morning memories. Sharing tree's founding program provides an opportunity for parents to escape their difficult circumstances and pic out gifts and needed items for everyone in the home. We offer new toys for childre, as well as clothing, shoes, coats, books and christmas decorations for families.
$181,376 spent70% of program spendingClassroom connection - oklahoma city public schools requires school uniforms, yet 83 percent of the district's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches due to family income at or below poverty level. Sharing tree fills the gap by providing two uniform sets, one new and one lightly used, to stuents who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford them. This effort ensures that students are able to remain in the classroom and earn their education.
Community connection - this year-round program offers a dignified shopping experience for families in need, providing clothes and other necessities in a department store-like layout. Each visitor is assigned a personal shopper who helps navigate the store, once clients are finished, we pack up their items and load their cars for them - all at no cost.
Christmas connection works to strengthen communities by providing low- income families throughout central oklahoma with a dignified, no-cost shopping experience. Programs include christmas connection,crisis connection, and community connection. Our facility is laid out like a department store where families living at or below the poverty level can personally select items based on their needs and preferences, including clothing, shoes,hosehold items, coats, and toys.
$76,596 spent30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $257,972.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $594k to $271k (−54%).
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: 2023 17% · 2024 34% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 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
Mike Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $15k → $4k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 84% · 2022 84% · 2023 57% — 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
50% of THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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 THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION 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. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC has grown faster than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC?
- THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,864 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($33,980). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $106,864 in grants to THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION INC?
- OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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