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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Avedis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 92%.
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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Avedis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avedis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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