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Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc

Oklahoma City, OK · EIN 73-0804291. Reported 158 grants totalling $14.0M to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

44organizations funded
$37,785median reported grant
$14.0Mgranted, 2020-2024
88%of grantees funded again the next year
13%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. For Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for arts & culture (NTEE A120).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 88% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $37,785. Half of what it reported fell between $17,681 and $70,000; the smallest was $5,122 and the largest $430,820. 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
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
30 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
44 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
28 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
17 grants
$250,000 Or More
18 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
Oklahoma City Museum of ArtOklahoma City, OK$1,851,867552024
Oklahoma Philharmonic Society IncOklahoma City, OK$1,812,970552024
Science Museum Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$1,751,428552024
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center IncOklahoma City, OK$1,338,607552024
Ballet Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$1,195,255552024
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$1,107,400552024
Arts Council of Oklahoma CityOklahoma City, OK$940,363552024
Canterbury Voices IncOklahoma City, OK$348,439552024
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum IncOklahoma City, OK$344,857552024
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art IncShawnee, OK$321,572552024
Deadcenter Film Festival IncOklahoma City, OK$293,966552024
Oklahoma Childrens Theatre IncOklahoma City, OK$280,745552024
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coaliton IncOklahoma City, OK$256,204552024
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the ParkOklahoma City, OK$201,513552024
Sooner Theatre of Norman IncNorman, OK$195,416552024
Opry Heritage Foundation of OklahomaOklahoma City, OK$182,948552024
Oklahoma Youth Orchestra IncOklahoma City, OK$181,625552024
Norman Firehouse Art Center IncNorman, OK$180,063552024
Red Earth IncOklahoma City, OK$177,818552024
Metropolitan School of Dance IncOklahoma City, OK$166,397552024
Prairie Dance Theatre IncEdmond, OK$129,487552024
Carpenter Square Theatre IncOklahoma City, OK$110,614552024
Cimarron Circuit Opera CompanyNorman, OK$109,359552024
Painted Sky Opera IncEdmond, OK$67,600442024
El Sistema Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$49,000442023
R a C E Dance CompanyOklahoma City, OK$45,000222024
Paseo Artists Association IncOklahoma City, OK$35,550442024
Aspiring Attitudes IncOklahoma City, OK$30,500442024
Black Liberated Arts CenterOklahoma City, OK$25,000222021
The Ambassadors Concert Choir IncOklahoma City, OK$24,150222024
Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group IncorporatedOklahoma City, OK$23,750112024
Oklahoma City Girls Art SchoolincOklahoma City, OK$23,282222021
Untitled Art Space IncOklahoma City, OK$23,000222024
Oklahoma Hall of Fame IncOklahoma City, OK$20,165332022
Oklahoma Arts InstituteOklahoma City, OK$20,099332023
Kidsalive IncOklahoma City, OK$20,000112020
Perpetual Motion Modern Dance Oklahoma IncOklahoma City, OK$17,681112024
Norman Arts and Humanities CouncilNorman, OK$13,847112024
Sweet Adelines InternationalArcadia, OK$10,973222021
Fine Arts Institute of EdmondEdmond, OK$8,996112022
Scissortails Productions IncNorman, OK$7,500112023
Okc Improv FoundationOklahoma City, OK$7,000112020
Oklahoma Museums AssociationOklahoma City, OK$6,134112020
Eufaula Area Arts Council IncEufaula, OK$5,780112023

35 of 44 (80%) 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Arts & Culture
38 orgs
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202035$2,772,372$34,368
202131$2,666,744$34,967
202227$2,657,229$37,570
202333$2,783,170$41,000
202432$3,084,405$46,390

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

Oklahoma City, OK
$12.9M
Norman, OK
$506K
Shawnee, OK
$322K
Edmond, OK
$206K
Arcadia, OK
$11K
Eufaula, OK
$6K

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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 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 Inc34 shared recipientsKirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of18 shared recipientsInasmuch Foundation15 shared recipientsEl and Thelma Gaylord Foundation14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Oklahoma10 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 $37,785 -- 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 Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 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: 1015 N Broadway Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK, 73102.

EIN 73-0804291 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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