Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK · EIN 73-1464051. Reported 83 grants totalling $1,731,349 to 60 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. For Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 39% 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,886 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,037 and the largest $188,904. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Coalgate | Coalgate, OK | $188,904 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Choctaw County Ambulance Authority | Hugo, OK | $154,496 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Metafund Corporation | Edmond, OK | $114,628 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Oklahoma Developement Association | Durant, OK | $67,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park | Oklahoma City, OK | $59,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tishomingo Public School District | Tishomingo, OK | $58,592 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oklahoma Childrens Theatre Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $58,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oklahoma Dental Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boggy Volunteer Fire Department | Red Oak, OK | $40,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kiamichi Economic Development District of Oklahoma (keddo) | Wilburton, OK | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Museums Association | Oklahoma City, OK | $39,650 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The St Anthony Hospital Foundation Inc Oklahoma City Oklahoma | Saint Louis, MO | $36,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Public School District | Carnegie, OK | $34,326 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Srt Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $30,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Deadcenter Film Festival Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hamilton Health Box Foundation Inc | Houston, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Okmulgee County Homeless Shelter Inc | Okmulgee, OK | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | Boston, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southern Oklahoma Library System Incorporated | Ardmore, OK | $28,917 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oklahoma Council on Economic Education | Edmond, OK | $26,016 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Hall of Fame Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oklahoma Project Woman Inc | Tulsa, OK | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kits of Hope | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,805 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Hartel Dance Company | Norman, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Hugo | Hugo, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dentists Donating Smiles to Oklahomans Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | Stillwater, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Visual Arts Coaliton Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma Inc | Durant, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Smart Start Central Oklahoma | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warriors Rest Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shady Grove School | Hulbert, OK | $18,818 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cartwright Community Resource Center Inc | Cartwright, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Health Center of Southern Oklahoma Inc | Tishomingo, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Okemah Public Library-City of Okemah | Okemah, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc | Edmond, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opportunities Industrialization Center of Oklahoma County Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Science Museum Oklahoma Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Scissortails Productions Inc | Norman, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tupelo Public School District | Tupelo, OK | $14,416 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boone-Apache Public School District | Apache, OK | $14,282 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hugo Public Schools | Hugo, OK | $13,840 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers Inc | Ardmore, OK | $13,649 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tinker Federal Credit Union Foundation Inc | Tinker Afb, OK | $13,395 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eufaula Public Schools | Eufaula, OK | $12,291 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coleman Public School District | Coleman, OK | $11,651 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute & Museum | Hobart, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Norman Smith Memorial Library | Hilton, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Smithville Public School | Smithville, OK | $9,886 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clayton Public School District | Clayton, OK | $9,842 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Checotah High School | Checotah, OK | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eufaula Area Arts Council Inc | Eufaula, OK | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Atoka Public Schools | Atoka, OK | $8,545 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Achille High Schoolachille Isd | Achille, OK | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latimer County Arts Council Inc | Hartshorne, OK | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hollis Public School District | Hollis, OK | $6,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coalgate Public Schools | Coalgate, OK | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cartwright Memorial Library Inc | Clayton, OK | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cottonwood Public School District | Coalgate, OK | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
17 of 60 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 32 of 60 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 | 4 | $49,492 | $12,496 |
| 2021 | 12 | $183,456 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $830,035 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 36 | $668,366 | $13,197 |
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
94% 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 $15,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1000 N Broadway Ave, Oklahoma City, OK, 73102.
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