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Howard Family Charitable Foundation

Accepts applications Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · EIN 208623940

Howard Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In tax year 2025 it gave $211,500 in 17 grants; the typical grant was $5,000 and the largest $62,000. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.

From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2025.

Giving in 2025 was down from $250,000 the year before.

29% of its 2025 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, a mix of repeat and new grantees.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants paidNumber of grantsAssets
2023$170,00021$3.5 million
2024$250,00025$3.6 million
2025$211,50017$3.6 million

How to apply

ContactRobert E Howard II
PO Box 2898, Oklahoma City, OK 73101
Phone or email(405) 488-6282
What to submitWritten or verbal requests are accepted in any format
RestrictionsAwards may be given only to further the following 2 purposes: 1) making of grants and gifts to public charities, educational institutions of learning, and scientific research and institutions engaged in the discovery, treatment, and cure of disease and care of the afflicted; and 2) making of grants, gifts, and loans to persons in distress due to illness, accident, or disaster who are selected as meritorious and capable of furthering the purposes of the corporation.

As written in the foundation's IRS filing for tax year 2025. Details may have changed since.

IRS filings on ProPublica

What Howard Family Charitable Foundation funds

Where it gives

Its grants went to recipients in 3 states, the most to Oklahoma.

StateGrantsAmount
Oklahoma15$201,500
Montana1$5,000
New Hampshire1$5,000

Grants paid in 2025

All 17 grants
RecipientPurposeAmount
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$62,000
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$50,000
Infant Crisis Services Inc
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$25,000
Genesis Project
Jones, OK
Community service$17,500
Ozs
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$13,000
Pellow Outreach
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$10,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$5,000
Camp Valor Outdoors
Kingsville, MT
Community service$5,000
First
Manchester, NH
Community service$5,000
Hope Is Alive
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$5,000
Greater Okc Parks and Trails Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$2,500
Last Frontier Council Bsa
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$2,500
Payne Education Center
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$2,500
YWCA
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$2,500
Hearts for Hearing
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$2,000
Impact Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$1,500
Myriad Gardens Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK
Community service$500

Officers and trustees

As listed in Part VIII of the 2025 filing.

Questions people ask

Does Howard Family Charitable Foundation accept grant applications?

Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications.

How much does Howard Family Charitable Foundation give?

$211,500 in tax year 2025, across 17 grants, with a typical grant of $5,000.

Who runs Howard Family Charitable Foundation?

Its 2025 filing lists Robert E Howard II (President) and Vicki P Howard (Vp/Secretary).

What does Howard Family Charitable Foundation fund?

Based on its grants, mainly youth programs and environment and conservation.

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