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United Way of South Central Oklahoma Inc

Ardmore, OK · EIN 73-0674637. Reported 116 grants totalling $3,486,081 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

34organizations funded
$27,800median reported grant
$3,486,081granted, 2021-2024
87%of grantees funded again the next year
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. 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.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 6% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 87% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $27,800. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $38,300; the smallest was $7,300 and the largest $76,792. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
41 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
58 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Family Shelter of So Oklahoma Serv for Victims of Domestic ViolenceArdmore, OK$194,900442024
Hfv Wilson Center Authority IncArdmore, OK$191,484442024
Take Two Alternative Educational Services of Southern Oklahoma IncArdmore, OK$172,958442024
Gloria Ainsworth Child Care & Learning Center IncArdmore, OK$158,446442024
Oklahoma Association for Retarded CitizensArdmore, OK$152,732442024
Big Five Community Services IncDurant, OK$151,015442024
Saras Project IncArdmore, OK$146,454442024
Habitat for Humanity International IncArdmore, OK$141,900442024
Inca Community Services IncTishomingo, OK$136,634442024
Naomi House IncArdmore, OK$133,300442024
The Grace Center of Southern Oklahoma IncArdmore, OK$130,400332023
Our Neighbors Cupboard IncTishomingo, OK$128,588442024
Johnston County EmsTishomingo, OK$114,067442024
Broadway HouseArdmore, OK$111,300442024
Texoma Autism and Behavior Intervention SchoolArdmore, OK$109,100442024
Camp Fire Heart of Okla IncArdmore, OK$106,423442024
Madill Community Day Care Center Association IncorporatedMadill, OK$104,900332024
Community Youth Services of Southern Oklahoma IncArdmore, OK$94,300222022
Catholic CharitiesOklahoma City, OK$93,841442024
Hilltop Equine Therapy IncArdmore, OK$91,838442024
Boy Scouts of AmericaArdmore, OK$91,416442024
Cities in Schools IncLone Grove, OK$85,152332023
Arbuckle Life SolutionsArdmore, OK$84,893332023
Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service IncArdmore, OK$82,712442024
Outcasts Under Transformation IncArdmore, OK$82,095442024
Hickory Creek Child Center IncArdmore, OK$70,100332023
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$65,444442024
Restoring Lives IncArdmore, OK$64,140222022
Love County SR ProgramMarietta, OK$49,411222022
Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$39,838442024
Counseling IncTishomingo, OK$33,700332024
Destiny Recovery Center IncArdmore, OK$27,600112021
MeapArdmore, OK$22,600112021
New Dimension Literacy Council IncArdmore, OK$22,400222022

32 of 34 (94%) 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 22 of 34 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.

Human Services
8 orgs
Education
5 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Civil Rights
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202134$875,000$24,400
202230$920,706$29,003
202328$752,300$25,000
202424$938,075$35,500

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

Ardmore, OK
$2.5M
Tishomingo, OK
$413K
Oklahoma City, OK
$199K
Durant, OK
$151K
Madill, OK
$105K
Lone Grove, OK
$85K
Marietta, OK
$49K

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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.

Mccrory Foundation13 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of Ardmore Inc8 shared recipientsSouthern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation8 shared recipientsSarkeys Foundation7 shared recipientsThe Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation5 shared recipientsMhm Support Services5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $27,800 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oklahoma.
  4. 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 United Way of South Central Oklahoma Inc'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.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: 10 W Main Street 418, Ardmore, OK, 73401.

EIN 73-0674637 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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