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Arvest 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k401 grants · $1.8M
- $10k–50k157 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Little Rock Chamber Foundation | $75,000 |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $70,000 |
| Fort Kids | $50,000 |
| Oklahoma City Economic Development Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Inc | $42,500 |
| United Way of the Ozarks | $35,000 |
| Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust | $35,000 |
| Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas Inc | $33,750 |
| Downtown Tulsa Partnership Inc | $25,000 |
| Economic Security Corporation of Southwest Area | $25,000 |
| Route 66 Alliance Inc | $25,000 |
| Van Buren Community Development Organization | $25,000 |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Outsiders House Museum Association | $25,000 |
| Tulsa Community College Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Arvest Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
567 repeat relationships — 335 still active in FY2024, 232 since wound down; 190 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- LRLITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +54% · 39% of their budget
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +12%
OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $158k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- LPLawton Public Schoolsone grant, 2021 · $51k
- TGTHE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +7%
- 3D36 DEGREES NORTH COgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +47%
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.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
To render constructive civic service, including the sponsorship of social, educational, and economic projects for the promotion of the welfare of the community and the citizens of the ozarks situated in baxter, boone, marion, newton,…
To alleviate the causes of poverty by supporting oklahoma's community action agencies, which includes providing coordinated services, training and other assitance to member agencies.
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The northwest arkansas women's shelter is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering them to build lives free of violence.
Promotion of the growth, vitality, and development of northwest arkansas and its people, concentrating on workforce development, regional stewardship, infrastructure, and economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Oklahoma City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stormwalker Ranch Equine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
927 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. 927 of the 1,466 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds The Peel Compton Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COXHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COLLEGES OF HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Food on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OUTSIDERS HOUSE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds O R U GOLDEN EAGLE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC ↗
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · The Schmieding Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Oge Energy Corp Foundation Inc · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Riggs Benevolent Fund · The Hardesty Family 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 Arvest 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.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Tulsa Economic Development Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma Inc — 0% 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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