· Private foundation
Alan and Shelly Armstrong Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $279k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $278,509 |
| OU FOUNDATION | $240,211 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES | $32,600 |
| TULSA CARES | $25,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM | $24,048 |
| THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ST CHARLES AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PAYBEE GRIEF CENTER | $2,570 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2017–2022 · $133k · revenue +253%
OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC5× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +3%- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TULSAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ACALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue -8%
- LALOYAL ALWAYS TRUE FUND - U OF TULSAone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Tcf is organized and operated for charitable purposes primarily for the long term benefit of the tulsa metropolitan area and eastern oklahoma charitable causes.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cascia Hall Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds WES WELKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gelvin Foundation · Zink Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alan and Shelly Armstrong Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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