Ok Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 87-0643214. Reported 89 grants totalling $10.4M to 64 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. For Ok Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
- How spread out its giving is. 64 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. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,000 and $134,000; the smallest was $5,044 and the largest $1,000,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upstream Cinema | Las Vegas, NV | $1,130,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dandelion Media | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vatican Human Fraternity | $885,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Mentors International | Draper, UT | $672,125 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mesoamerican Research Foundation- Fundacion De Investigaciones Mesoa | Bountiful, UT | $602,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Orphan Myth Inc | Geneva, IL | $550,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mercury One Inc | Irving, TX | $407,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Act of Love Alternative Options & Services for Todays Children | Sandy, UT | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ghana Make a Change | Arco, ID | $338,488 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Zahra Charity Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magic in Learning Foundation | Layton, UT | $292,809 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Weber State University | Ogden, UT | $260,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| August Mission | American Fork, UT | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| G20 Interfaith Forum Association | Provo, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inside Track | Portland, OR | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Proland | $211,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Elevate Mexico Lending | Phoenix, AZ | $203,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maliheh Free Clinic | Millcreek, UT | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Upstream Cinema Project | Las Vegas, NV | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Windrider Institute Inc | Eagle, ID | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Partners | Layton, UT | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Global | Chicago, IL | $102,078 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barzani Charity Foundation | Dallas, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Common Grounds Community Development Corp | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Learning Frequency | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Child Rescue Coalition Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fight for Life | Salt Lake City, UT | $78,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rising Star Outreach Inc | Provo, UT | $71,779 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hope Arising Inc | Gilbert, AZ | $71,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Freedom Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hamilton Productions | Fruit Heights, UT | $56,617 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Creative Visions Foundation | Malibu, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Global Poverty Project Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| More Too Life | Sarasota, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ministers of Peace - Ethiopia | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Rachel Covey Foundation | Alpine, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valia Assure Labs Gb 2022 LLC | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Red Fred Project | Salt Lake City, UT | $48,983 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kars 4 Kids Inc | Lakewood, NJ | $44,970 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Triple T Haven | Ault, CO | $39,550 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baskerville Institute | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope for Her International | Salt Lake City, UT | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Many Hopes Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Davis Education Foundation | Farmington, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| E3 Worldwide | Marysville, WA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Francis S Keleekai SR Educational Foundation Inc | Willingboro, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elevate Global | Gilbert, AZ | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fight for Light Incorporated | Atlanta, GA | $26,564 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Responsibility Foundation Inc | Spanish Fork, UT | $25,825 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humanitarian Experience Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $25,317 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| I Can I Am Foundation | Clinton, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indys Ohana | Sandy, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stella H Oaks Charitable Foundation | Bountiful, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stirling Foundation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maldonado Relief Fund | Gilbert, AZ | $18,719 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Debakey High School for Health Professions | Houston, TX | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Monument Resort | Lehi, UT | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Realize Impact | Bainbridge Is, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartquist Hallow Farm | Winkelman, AZ | $12,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rehoboth Children's Center | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Carry on Foundation | Provo, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stones of Light Mesoamerica Education Foundation | Ephraim, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Caring for Our Young Inc | Layton, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Makeithappenlife | Orem, UT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 64 (23%) 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 37 of 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $626,203 | $48,800 |
| 2022 | 23 | $1,282,356 | $18,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $1,418,967 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 45 | $7,104,148 | $50,000 |
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
44% of its giving went to organizations in Utah. 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 $50,000 -- 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 Utah.
- 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 Ok Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 3865 S Wasatch Blvd Suite 130, Salt Lake City, UT, 84109.
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