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Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
69%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,300
Organizations funded a year
1 to 21
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$67k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$8k0%
FY202413$12k69%
FY20235$8k40%
FY20227$5k57%
FY20211$583100%
FY202015$66k53%
FY201818$21k61%
FY201721$67kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$116kEducation$24kArts & Culture$18kReligion$6kPublic Benefit$4kCrime & Legal$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$10,94030%
Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence$7,00040%
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$6,10040%
Holland Hall$3,8002n/a
Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy$3,00020%
Arizona Musicfest Inc$2,00020%
Scott Carter Foundation$1,20050%
Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Salvation Army$5831n/a
American College of Trial Lawyers$55020%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$10,94030%
Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence$7,00040%
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$6,10040%
Holland Hall$3,8002n/a
Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy$3,00020%
Arizona Musicfest Inc$2,00020%
Scott Carter Foundation$1,20050%
Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Salvation Army$5831n/a
American College of Trial Lawyers$55020%
Tulsa Library Trust$50010%
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc$30010%
Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park$30030%
Greenwood Cultural Center Inc$2501n/a
Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc$25010%
Marine Corps Heritage Foundation$25010%
Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc$10010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$10010%
John Knox Presbyterian Church$1001n/a
Heartland to Breadbasket Inc$1001n/a
Family & Childrens Services Inc$10010%
The George W Bush Foundation$10010%
Bethune-Cookman University$10010%
Tulsa Historical Society$10010%
Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma$1001n/a

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $10,940 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Foundation for Excellence: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: $6,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Musicfest Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScott Carter Foundation: $1,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican College of Trial Lawyers: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Library Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Pinnacle Peak Park: $300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTulsa Lawyers for Children Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Corps Heritage Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George W Bush Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethune-Cookman University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Historical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

One Gas Foundation IncOK26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: One Gas Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · John and Donnie Brock Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr

How much does Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr give?
Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr reported 6 grants totaling $7,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (61%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($11k), Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence ($7k), The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc ($6k).
Does Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include One Gas Foundation Inc, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation.
Where is Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr based?
Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr is based in OK.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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