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Carol Tandy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$74,400
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Carol Tandy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving10$120k40%
FY20247$82k43%
FY20233$10k0%
FY20225$65k20%
FY20215$49k40%
FY20206$33k17%
FY20196$57k0%
FY201811$71k27%
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$268kHuman Services$41kHealth$33kEducation$29kHousing & Shelter$28kYouth Development$11kCivil Rights$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

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
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$308,17090%
Monte Cassino School Inc$35,0002n/a
Iron Gate Inc$34,05051%
Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc$32,29253%
Tulsa Day Center Inc$30,84050%
Life Senior Services Inc$17,90040%
Youth Services of Tulsa Inc$10,60020%
Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Oklahomans for Equality Inc$4,75020%
The University of Tulsa$3,95010%
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All grantees of Carol Tandy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$308,17090%
Monte Cassino School Inc$35,0002n/a
Iron Gate Inc$34,05051%
Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc$32,29253%
Tulsa Day Center Inc$30,84050%
Life Senior Services Inc$17,90040%
Youth Services of Tulsa Inc$10,60020%
Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Oklahomans for Equality Inc$4,75020%
The University of Tulsa$3,95010%
Oklahoma Smoke Diver Association$3,0001n/a
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc$3,00010%
Harmony Project Tulsa$1,50011%
Family & Childrens Services Inc$1,00010%
Oklahoma Project Woman Inc$1,00020%
Domestic Violence Intervention Services$50010%
Southern Hills Country Club$50010%
Tulsa Fire Museum Inc$40012%
Youth Development of Tulsa Inc$15010%
Tulsa Library Trust$10010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carol Tandy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc: $308,170 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIron Gate Inc: $34,050 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHealth Outreach Prevention Education Inc: $32,292 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTulsa Day Center Inc: $30,840 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLife Senior Services Inc: $17,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Services of Tulsa Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOklahomans for Equality Inc: $4,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $3,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project Tulsa: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Project Woman Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Intervention Services: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Hills Country Club: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Fire Museum Inc: $400 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYouth Development of Tulsa Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Library Trust: $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 17.

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK27.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc

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 Carol Tandy Foundation

How much does Carol Tandy Foundation give?
Carol Tandy Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $119,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Carol Tandy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (60%), Human Services (9%), Health (7%).
Who are Carol Tandy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc ($308k), Monte Cassino School Inc ($35k), Iron Gate Inc ($34k).
Does Carol Tandy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carol Tandy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carol Tandy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation.
Where is Carol Tandy Foundation based?
Carol Tandy Foundation 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 28 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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