· Private foundation
Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND HALL SCHOOL | $2,300 |
| SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $2,000 |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | $1,000 |
| TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN | $200 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $100 |
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 (FY18–22, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +23%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC4× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +253%- AMARIZONA MUSICFEST INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BABOSTON AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MCMARINE CORPS MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
To promote ethical conduct among attorneys, to advance the effective administration of our judicial system, to ensure equal access to justice for all citizens and to engender respect for the legal profession, the law and the governing…
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The oklahoma bar foundation provides annual funding through grants to promote the advancement of justice, to provide critical civil legal services to those in need, and to increase public awareness and understanding of the american legal…
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
To provide broad-based advisory, planning, and financial support for the various exhibits, projects, education programs, and initiatives undertaken by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
The university of tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. guided by our commitment to diversity,…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 56 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 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PINNACLE PEAK PARK ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara & James Sturdivant Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University: 6% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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