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Avedis Foundation
AVEDIS FOUNDATION IS A CATALYST AND FACILITATOR OF CHANGE THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCACTION | $777,974 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA | $500,000 |
| CITY OF SHAWNEE | $191,000 |
| COMMUNITY MARKET POTTTAWATOMIE COUNTY | $167,525 |
| ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| GATEWAY TO PREVENTION AND RECOVERY INC | $100,000 |
| SHAWNEE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| GATEWAY TO PREVENTION AND RECOVERY INC | $93,125 |
| PROJECT SAFE | $91,464 |
| JASMINE MORAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $57,800 |
| MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,784 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,620 |
| LEGACY PARENTING CENTER INC | $23,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Avedis 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, 100% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 92% — 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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +60% · 99% of their budget
- GTGATEWAY TO PREVENTION & RECOVERY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
- CMCOMMUNITY MARKET OF POTT COUNT6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +143% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- SAST ANTHONY HOSPITAL SHAWNEEone grant, 2019 · $678k
- COCITY OF CHANDLERone grant, 2022 · $120k
- UWUNITED WAY OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
Our Mission is for all Oklahoma families to have access to quality care and education for their children through community-based resource and referral services; with a vision of Oklahoma communities supporting the development and learning…
Skillz on wheelz (sow) is a non-profit mobile organization that offers free therapy sessions and case management resources to assist those with limited access to mental health care in the north tulsa area.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
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.
The organization is engaged in the service of rehabilitating users of alcohol and drugs. the center is also involved in community service programs, dui schools and out-patient counseling.
The Cardinal Community House is a resource dedicated to assisting individuals experiencing homelessness. Our work is to address urgent critical needs, like housing, while addressing underlying concerns to bring about life-changing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Mental Health Council and the most unlike its peers is Senior Citizens of Shawnee 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 78 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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO PREVENTION & RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MARKET OF POTT COUNT ↗
- Who funds THE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Seminole State College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAFE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Shawnee Bridges out of Poverty Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF SHAWNEE OK ↗
- Who funds RISE PROGRAM INC (RE-ENTRY INVESTMENT/STUDENT ED) ↗
- Who funds North Oklahoma County Mental Health Center ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN TERNEY MEMORIAL TECUMSEH POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORRELS HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE LITTLE THEATRE 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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · The Cleo L Craig Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · St Anthony Shawnee Hospital Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Feed the Children Inc · United Way of Eastern Frontier Country · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oge Energy Corp 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 Avedis 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.
- Community Market of Pott Count — 57% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Gateway to Prevention & Recovery — 6% of income from government
- North Oklahoma County Mental Health Center — 6% of income from government
- Oklahoma Mental Health Council — 3% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Oklahoma Community Action Agency — 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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