· Public charity
Arts Alliance Tulsa Inc
Sustaining tulsa's thriving non-profit arts community through united fundraising and support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $394,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $420,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| TULSA BALLET THEATRE | $25,000 |
| TULSA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| TULSA OPERA | $20,000 |
| TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,000 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $17,000 |
| TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $17,000 |
| CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| LIVING ARTS OF TULSA | $15,000 |
| SIGNATURE SYMPHONY AT TCC | $15,000 |
| FAB LAB TULSA | $15,000 |
| GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE BART CENTER FOR MUSIC | $15,000 |
| TULSA GLASSBLOWING STUDIO | $15,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $64k · revenue +3%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $63k · revenue +10%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2022–2024 · $62k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CPCRAFT PRODUCTION OF OKLAHOMA INC FORMERLY THEATRE ARTS PRODUCTION COone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +134%
- OPOKLAHOMA PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue 0%
- TOTulsa Oratorio Chorus Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +108%
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 mission of The Sooner Theatre is to change lives, offer diverse perspectives and create a cultural connection to the community through the performing arts and arts education.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
To provide a wide spectrum of high quality theatrical entertainment to a broad audience in Enid and the surrounding communities, and to provide a setting for nonprofessional actors, directors, designers, and technicians to learn and…
To offer everyone the opportunity to experience the joy and collective healing of Afro-Caribbean/Latin dancing in an inclusive community.
Tulsa pop kids, inc. is a nonprofit whose mission is to advance literacy, education, inspiration, and aspiration to the children of our community through pop culture and entertainment.
Not-for-profit organization formed for the purpose of holding a master license agreement and providing technical support for Tessitura software, a ticketing and development program. The software is currently used by member charitable…
To provide Tulsa with a professional theatre company for the production of stage performances in order to educate and entertain audiences while providing regional artists the opportunity to showcase & develop their talent to the highest.
Performing Arts and Performing Arts Education
To provide tulsa area organizations with a collection of shows available for fund raising, team building and special events, while emphasizing the educational component of musical theatre in a supportive, positive and fun-filled atmosphere.
The mission of the organization is to encourage growth in the cultural climate of oklahoma through the production of classical theatrical productions in unique venues at a reasonable admission price.
Our purpose is to restore and preserve the historic Okla Theatre, a cherished landmark that holds deep cultural and historical significance for our town. Through this restoration, we aim to honor our communitys heritage, foster local…
To cultivate a more creative tulsa through advocacy, education and innovative partnerships, which contribute to the quality of life and economic vitality of the greater community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Opera Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fab Lab Tulsa Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Fab Lab Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Arts of Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds Brady Craft Inc ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Glass Blowing Studio Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC TULSA ↗
- Who funds TULSA YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Clark Youth Theatre Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HORTON RECORDS LTD ↗
- Who funds CRAFT PRODUCTION OF OKLAHOMA INC FORMERLY THEATRE ARTS PRODUCTION CO ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Oratorio Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds LATIMER COOKSEY ARTS & CULTURAL ↗
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: George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation · The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Inc · Flint Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation
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 Arts Alliance Tulsa Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tulsa Glass Blowing Studio Inc — 4% of income from government
- Theatre Tulsa Inc — 2% 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.