· Community foundation
Bartlesville Community Foundation
To provide a simple way to do good works.
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.
The 57 grants below total $2,154,294 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,716,419 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $562,125 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $748k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL ISD #30 | $249,864 |
| CITY CHURCH | $234,755 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER | $201,200 |
| OKMUSIC | $125,200 |
| BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER | $116,801 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $103,400 |
| BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $100,726 |
| INTENTIONAL PARENTS INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| TRI COUNTY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION | $59,262 |
| THE COTTAGE | $52,900 |
| CONCERN | $47,975 |
| BARTLESVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION | $45,610 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $44,629 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,826 |
| MARY K OXLEY NATURE CENTER | $35,000 |
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, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 14% of Bartlesville Community 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, 88% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 84% — 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.
74 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- BPBARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $568k · revenue +54% · 35% of their budget
- TCTRI COUNTY TECH ENDOWMENT FUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $514k · revenue +88% · 29% of their budget
OK MOZART INC4× · 2021–2025 · $393k · revenue +31% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2020–2021 · $40k
- OCOGLESBY CIVIL DEFENSE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -37%
- TBTHEATER BARTLESVILLEone grant, 2017 · $24k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
To provide a simple way to do good works.
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 mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
The mission of the oklahoma school of science and mathematics foundation is to foster excellence in k-12 science and mathematics education throughout oklahoma by supporting the school's outreach projects, programs, development, students,…
To help southwestern oklahoma state university raise the resources needed for the university to advance beyond what is possible with state funds and to assist students with tuition and fees in the form of scholarships for attendance at…
The mission of oklahoma bible academy is to integrate god's word into all aspects of learning and living. the purpose of oba is to provide a sound academic education integrated with a christian view of god and the world. it is the belief…
Randall university is a christian institution of higher education committed to the intellectual, spiritual, social, moral, and physical development of its students. it seeks to prepare students to serve the lord jesus christ, both in the…
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…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Frank Phillips Foundation 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 123 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 BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY TECH ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OK MOZART INC ↗
- Who funds PATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BARTLESVILLE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Intentional Parents International ↗
- Who funds ON THE ROCK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE OF BARTLESVILLE INC A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bluestem Regional Medical Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED FOR COMMUNITY CONCERN ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RUN THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATRE OF BARTLESVILLE ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma 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: Lyon Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation · K S Adams Foundation Co-Trust · Cresap Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · McAnaw Family Foundation · Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc · Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation
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 Bartlesville Community 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc — 68% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% 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.