For immediate
release: November 5, 2004
Inasmuch Foundation
Gives $4.77 Million in Grants to Oklahoma Organizations
Latest Grants Total Largest
Contribution in Foundation’s 22-year History
(Oklahoma City) ---- The Inasmuch Foundation announced today
the distribution of $4.77 million in grants to 66 Oklahoma
organizations, marking the largest total grant distribution
in Oklahoma in the Foundation’s 22-year history.
Edith Kinney Gaylord founded the Inasmuch
Foundation in 1982 to support charitable, scientific and educational
causes that enhance the progress and quality of life for Oklahomans.
Today, the Foundation is committed to carrying on the immense
interests of its late founder by giving to education, health
and human services, cultural organizations, the arts, historic
preservation and environmental concerns.
“The Inasmuch Foundation is committed
to the vision of its founder, Edith Kinney Gaylord, who strived
to enrich the quality of life for all Oklahomans,” said
Robert J. Ross, Vice President and Executive Director of the
Inasmuch Foundation. “We believe that this combination
of grants fulfill our mission and reflect Edith’s lifelong
desire to do the most good for the most people.”
Organizations awarded grants from the Inasmuch
Foundation include:
- $3 million to Oklahoma City University
for the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center which will serve as
the new home for OCU’s School of American Dance and
Arts Management.
- $300,000 to University of Central Oklahoma’s
College of Mathematics and Science for construction of new
science laboratories in Howell Hall.
- Grants ranging between $50,000 to $125,000
include City Rescue Mission; Lyric Theatre; Mount Saint
Mary High School; National Cowboy & Western Heritage
Museum; Oklahoma Philharmonic Society; Sacred Heart Catholic
Church for the benefit of the Sacred Heart Retirement Center;
Salvation Army; Women’s Foundation of Oklahoma; and
World Neighbors.
- Additional grants to organizations in
the greater Oklahoma City community include: Ballet Oklahoma;
Birth Choice of Oklahoma; Business Circle for Arts Education;
Canterbury Choral Society; CarePoint, Inc.; Center for Children
and Families; Chamber Music in Oklahoma, Cimarron Circuit
Opera Company; Community Literacy Center; Katheryne B. Payne
Education Center; Leadership Oklahoma; Myriad Garden Foundation;
Oklahoma City Community College Foundation; Oklahoma City
Economic Development Foundation; Oklahoma City Public Schools
Foundation; Oklahoma Youth Symphonies; Pioneer Library Systems
in Norman; Possibilities, Inc.; Rebuilding Together with
Christmas in April OKC; Regional AIDS Interfaith Network;
United Way of Central Oklahoma; and Vietnamese American
Association.
- Grants to organizations in the greater
Tulsa community include: Cherokee National Historical Society;
Domestic Violence Intervention Services; Eastern Oklahoma
Dental Services; Family & Children’s Services
of Tulsa; Hospice of Green Country; Leadership Tulsa; Oklahoma
Caring Foundation; Resonance Listening and Growth for Women;
Tulsa Area United Way; Tulsa Ballet Theatre; Tulsa Boys’
Home; Tulsa Children’s Chorus; Tulsa Zoo Friends;
and Young Women’s Christian Association of Tulsa.
- Other organizations receiving grants
include: Center of Family Love in Okarche; Freedom Museum
in Freedom; Nescatunga Arts and Humanities Council in Alva;
Pioneer Library Systems in Tecumseh; Wewoka High School;
and YWCA of Enid.
To learn more about the Foundation,
visit www.inasmuchfoundation.org
or call 405-604-5292.
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