A.R.I.A.
OKLAHOMA — CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
Foster Care Statistics
11,406 children in foster care
Federal Funding
$189M Title IV-E — $16,570 per child
Nonprofit Network
Top 5 control 68% of funding — three share board members
Political Donations
$127K to legislators on child welfare oversight committees
Outcomes
Maltreatment recurrence: 9.1% vs 6.3% national — no improvement in 4 years
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States report their own numbers
Nobody independently verifies the count
2
Those numbers set their own funding
The state reports its own data to determine its own budget
3
Funding flows to nonprofits nobody audits
IRS audits <1% — nobody checks if money helped a child
4
Nonprofits fund the oversight legislators
No database cross-references donors against grant recipients — except ours
5
Oversight uses the state's own data
The fox grades its own exam with answer keys it wrote
No external reference point in the entire chain.
Every measurement instrument is pointed inward.
Every measurement instrument is pointed inward.
Organization X — Prevention Program
"Serving 3,400 children annually"
Program Active
County Data
Maltreatment recurrence: 11.2% — double the national average
Financial Data
CEO: $340K • Caseworkers: $38K • 42% overhead
Political Connections
Board chair donated $23K to legislator awarding their sole-source contracts
Tools
The picture
Gaps
The weak points
Outcomes
The evidence
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tools to see through the blind spots