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Carmichael Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PARENT PROMISE | $10,000 |
| HOPE CENTER OF EDMOND | $8,000 |
| STEPHEN STILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OK | $5,000 |
| FREE TO LIVE INC | $5,000 |
| THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| PEPPERS RANCH | $5,000 |
| POSITIVE TOMORROWS | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF OKC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MERCURY ONE - DISASTER RELIEF | $5,000 |
| INFANT CRISIS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| NEADS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +27%- ECEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +145%
- EMEDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- YAYoung America's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +49%
- PIPAY IT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC30 DAY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PFPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +38%
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.
Pause4Paws promotes access to healthcare for pet owners in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, metro area impacted by homelessness, mental illness, or addiction who need inpatient treatment but have no one to care for their pets.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
Animal rescue foundation inc (arf) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. we do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
Reduce hunger in pets by providing free pet food and pet services to low income pet owners enabling them to keep their companion animal(s) with them. this includes providing routine vaccinations, spaying/neutering, pet supplies and shelter…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
Our mission is to create a kinder world for pets and the people who love them by providing lifesaving care, innovative programs, and community resources.
Pug Rescue Owasso mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, homeless, unwanted , sick and injured pugs. we rehabilitate them medically and emotionally and place them into homes
The angels mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, and neglected young children, match them with a select group of foster parents, and ensure the maximum emotional, social, and intellectual development of each child.
Animal Aid is a private welfare organization dedicated to saving sick or injured stray dogs and cats, helping pets find loving homes, helping reunite lost and found pets with their owners and encouraging respect and awareness for the…
The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Furever Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 39 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 REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER OF EDMOND INC ↗
- Who funds EDMOND MOBILE MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FREE TO LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUREVER FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELLA FOUNDATION INC SPCA ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR FOLKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds REBOOT RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOT 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 · Harris Foundation Inc · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · McLaughlin Family 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 Carmichael 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.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 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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