Oklahoma · Nonprofit
THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION
THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,020 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($485,770). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What The Simmons Center Foundation does
Mission
To provide cultural/recreational/social opportunity to people
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Recreational programs encourage physical fitness and community participation in a variety of individual and team activities such as aerobics, swimming, basketball leagues, weight training, etc
$1,670,485 spent$1,370,373 earned by the program84% of program spendingConventions and theatre activities help promote the cultural development of the community through concerts, theater performances, etc. Meeting rooms are available for business seminars, community meetings etc
$119,407 spent$154,345 earned by the program6% of program spendingTourism activities are carried out to promote tourism to the city of duncan and the surrounding communities
$195,529 spent$207,041 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,985,421.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.2M to $5.2M (−17%).
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 18% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 10% · 2021 22% · 2022 43% · 2023 20% · 2024 18% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Rex Outhier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 SIMMONS CENTER 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
THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
97% of THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $496k 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.
Organizations like THE SIMMONS CENTER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION: 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 SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION?
- THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,020 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($485,770). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $511,020 in grants to THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SIMMONS CENTER FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA is the largest funder on record, with $485,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SIMMONS CENTER 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.
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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 5 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