· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST CHARLES AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PAYBEE GRIEF CENTER | $2,570 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alan and Shelly Armstrong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan and Shelly Armstrong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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