Because We Care Philanthropy Inc
Oklahoma City, OK · EIN 84-5159666. Reported 89 grants totalling $11.4M to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 35% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $87,258; the smallest was $5,289 and the largest $3,970,092. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $379,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $3,970,092 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | Norman, OK | $2,002,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| East Texas Communties Foundation Inc | Tyler, TX | $1,048,487 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oklahoma City University | Oklahoma City, OK | $516,064 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Compassion Outreach Center Inc | Ada, OK | $456,811 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chickasaw Foundation | Ada, OK | $379,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connected U Inc | Edmond, OK | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| East Central University Foundation Inc | Ada, OK | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holy Family Classical School | Tulsa, OK | $250,419 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alfred B Maclay JR Day School | Tallahassee, FL | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Useful Wild Plants of Texas | Austin, TX | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Christian University Inc | Edmond, OK | $189,629 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fields & Futures Foundation | Edmond, OK | $179,830 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Anne Catholic Church | Broken Arrow, OK | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cal Ripken SR Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dean Mcgee Eye Institute Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Care Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Incorporated | Oklahoma City, OK | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Focus on Home Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $70,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ah Haa School for the Arts | Telluride, CO | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way of Central Oklahoma | Oklahoma City, OK | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $64,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma | Oklahoma City, OK | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Engage Learning Oklahoma Incorporated | Oklahoma City, OK | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vela Education Fund | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | Wichita, KS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Lukes United Methodist Foundation Inc of Oklahoma City Ok | Oklahoma City, OK | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Remerge Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virtue Center | Norman, OK | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Faith Bible Church | Edmond, OK | $29,435 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mercy Health Foundation Oklahoma City | Oklahoma City, OK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Myriad Gardens Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Child Legacy International Inc | Boerne, TX | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Communities Foundation of Oklahoma Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $23,463 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Are Rising Education Initiative Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wes Welker Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ou Medicine Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Positive Tomorrows Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| BRANCH15 Inc | Bethany, OK | $13,766 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Plainview Public Schools | Ardmore, OK | $13,652 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Purple Ink | Enid, OK | $12,886 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Montana Foundation | Lewistown, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lords Harvest Inc | El Reno, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mary Abbott Childrens House Inc | Norman, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Philharmonic Society Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Neighbors Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nichols Hills Parks Inc | Nichols Hills, OK | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minco Education Foundation | Minco, OK | $7,296 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chickasha Public School Foundation | Chickasha, OK | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Halo Project International Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Faithworks of the Inner City Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sunbeam Family Services Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Israel Exchange Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers Inc | Ardmore, OK | $5,289 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
20 of 56 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 of 56 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | $387,185 | $193,592 |
| 2021 | 11 | $1,061,101 | $12,886 |
| 2022 | 23 | $1,538,415 | $30,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $1,953,827 | $30,774 |
| 2024 | 25 | $6,444,091 | $21,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in Oklahoma. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oklahoma.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Because We Care Philanthropy Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1024 East Britton Road Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK, 73131.
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