Oklahoma · Nonprofit
THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC
THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,366,316 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($9,889,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What The Fairness Center Inc does
Mission
The fairness center, inc. Is authorized to conduct litigation as a (a) legal services organization; (b) human and civil rights defense organization; (c) public interest law firm; and (d) organization attempting to achieve charitable goals through institution of litigation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Legal services; the fairness center, inc. Provides legal services to those hurt by public sector union officials. See schedule o for a description of cases litigated and the rationale for the determination that the litigation benefits the public generally.
$2,880,668 spent$32,681 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,880,668.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $5.2M (+43%).
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.
97% of THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $60k → $3.9M.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 FAIRNESS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 FAIRNESS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 FAIRNESS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 21% · 2021 40% · 2022 51% · 2023 55% — 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
73% of THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
60% of THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.8M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FAIRNESS CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FAIRNESS CENTER 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
70% 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 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FAIRNESS CENTER 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 THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC?
- THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,366,316 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($9,889,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $19,366,316 in grants to THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $9,889,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FAIRNESS CENTER 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 31 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