As the calendar year end approaches the OGS is starting our annual campaign to grow our endowment fund. The purpose of the endowment is to give our organization a stable cash flow to maintain our organization into the future. We started the endowment fund with the Oklahoma City Community Foundation a few years ago. Our endowment stands a few hundred dollars below $100,000 at the present time. Through the endowment we will receive 5% of our average total from the previous year to add to our treasury each fall.
The goal of our 2025-2026 campaign is to add $40,000 to our endowment. The Kirkpatrick Family Fund has agreed to match our $30,000 collection with another $10,000 to give us the $40,000 addition. An anonymous donor for the last few years has agreed to get us started toward the $30,000 with a $7,500 donation. Over the past year we have collected donations from our friends and members of about $7,263 in which the OGS Board has committed for our endowment. This leaves us $15,237 to raise for our share of the $40,000 goal. The OGS Board has also committed some of the funds from the Cleveland County Genealogical Society donation towards our goal.
We have until August 2026 to raise the rest of the funds to get the matching funds from the Kirkpatrick Family Fund. As before we have setup donation levels to honor those members and friends that will be making donations. Go to our website www.okgensoc.org for more information on donating, what kinds of donations that can be made and the Oklahoma City Community Foundation.
Donation Tiers
Bison
$39 in Honor of the 39 Tribes in Oklahoma
Redbud
$70 to Honor the 70th Anniversary of the OGS
Scissortail
$118 in Honor of Oklahoma’s 118th Anniversary
Rose Rock
$400 in Honor of the 400 OGS Members
