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Lockhart Foundation

Oklahoma City, OK · EIN 26-2134446. Reported 73 grants totalling $1,244,029 to 35 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$1,244,029granted, 2021-2025
35recipients, as named on its returns
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,848,419assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lockhart Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
45 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
21 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Nexus EquineOklahoma City, OK$110,000442024
Free to Live Animal SanctuaryGuthrie, OK$103,500442025
Save Our Strays IncIndependence, MO$93,000552025
Oklahoma Humane SocietyOklahoma City, OK$76,000442025
Tiny Paws Kitten Rescue IncStillwater, OK$65,000442025
Lupa Legacy Animal RescueNoble, OK$64,200222025
Friends of the ShelterNewcastle, OK$60,000332023
Peppers Ranch IncGuthrie, OK$60,000442025
Horse Feathers Equine CenterGuthrie, OK$57,000442025
Happy Dog Farm FoundationJones, OK$55,000332025
T-Town TnrTulsa, OK$55,000442025
Pets and People Humane SocietyYukon, OK$45,000332023
Animal Rescue Foundation of BartlesvilleBartlesville, OK$43,225332025
The Right Path Riding Academy IncDrumright, OK$36,500442025
Be Kind Rescue Dogs FoundationOklahoma City, OK$36,000112025
Pooch Carriage CrewOklahoma City, OK$30,000112025
Witty Kitty Tnr IncOklahoma City, OK$30,000112025
Pets Helping PeopleTulsa, OK$22,500222025
3 Girls Animal RescueShady Point, OK$20,000112022
City CareOklahoma City, OK$20,000112024
Oklahoma Westie FoundationBroken Arrow, OK$20,000112022
We're Ok FoundationOklahoma City, OK$18,604112025
Bella SPCAOklahoma City, OK$17,000112021
Helping Paws Animal RescueBlanchard, OK$15,000112022
Savannah StationYukon, OK$11,000112025
Pets Without ParentsBlanchard, OK$10,500112021
Street Dog Rescue & RecoveryMoore, OK$10,500112022
4 Paws Support IncPiedmont, OK$10,000112025
Dragon Stables Equine Center IncStillwater, OK$10,000112022
Friends With Four PawsOklahoma City, OK$10,000112025
House of HealingEl Reno, OK$10,000112021
Mutt Misfits SocietyMidwest City, OK$10,000112022
Fur Ever Friends RescueChoctaw, OK$5,000112025
Angel Fund OkcChoctaw, OK$2,500112025
Kitten & CompanyOklahoma City, OK$2,000112021

15 of 35 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 56 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Animal Welfare
42 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Crime & Legal
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$142,000$10,000
202215$230,000$15,000
202313$230,725$15,000
202411$247,200$25,000
202521$394,104$18,604

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

93% of its giving went to organizations in Oklahoma. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Oklahoma
$1.2M
Missouri
$93K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsPaypal Charitable Giving Fund7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Oklahoma4 shared recipientsFred Jones Family Foundation4 shared recipientsEl and Thelma Gaylord Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Oklahoma.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Lockhart Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 621 North Robinson 100, Oklahoma City, OK, 73102. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 26-2134446 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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