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Carol Tandy Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$74k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA$74,400
RESONANCE$11,000
MONTE CASSINO SCHOOL$10,000
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES$9,400
TANDY FAMILY YMCA$5,000
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$3,000
TULSA DAY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS$2,500
TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$2,400
FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES$1,000
YOUTH SERVICES$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $1k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $9k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $500 → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $9k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 14 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$546k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+26%

Still filing today

57%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $308k · revenue +33%
  • IRON GATE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +83%
  • HO
    Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $32k · revenue +327%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • The University of Tulsa
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +8%
  • OS
    OKLAHOMA SMOKE DIVER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
2
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement
3
Tulsa Casa Inc

Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
4
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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6
Family Promise of Tulsa County Inc

Poverty alleviation/homelessness prevention

Housing & Shelter
7
Tulsa Police Foundation Inc

Raise awareness and funds for needs of the Tulsa Police Department that will benefit officers and citizens in the city of Tulsa. A joint effort between law enforcement and the citizens of Tulsa to enhance the safety and security of each.

Crime & Legal
8
Family Safety Center Inc

The family safety center exists to promote safety and justice in tulsa county through co-located multi-disciplinary services that offer protection, hope and healing to victims of intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault,…

Crime & Legal
9
Tulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund

Provide relief to family members due to death, injury, or illness.

Philanthropy
10
Tulsa County Medical Society Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to develop, create, and maintain programs in the tulsa area designed for health promotion, health education, and disease prevention and treatment through the professional expertise and engagement of the…

Philanthropy
11
Tulsa Community Loan Fund Inc

To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.

Housing & Shelter
12
Ywca Tulsa Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Day Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tulsa Fire Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $308,170 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INCMONTE CASSINO SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · OtherMONTE CASSINO SCHOOL INCRESONANCE: $34,660 · OtherRESONANCETHE YMCA: $17,000 · OtherTHE YMCATANDY FAMILY YMCA: $15,000 · OtherTANDY FAMILY YMCASALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherOKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY INC: $4,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,430 · Other+9 more: $10,450 · Other+9 moreHealth Outreach Prevention Education Inc: $32,292 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $3,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthIRON GATE INC: $34,050 · ReligionTULSA DAY CENTER INC: $30,840 · Housing & ShelterLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $17,900 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $10,600 · Human ServicesFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesThe University of Tulsa: $3,950 · Education+1 more: $100 · Education
Food & Nutrition$308,170Other$126,290Health$36,292Religion$34,050Housing & Shelter$30,840Human Services$30,000Education$4,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $900 over 3y, 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
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.

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 Found…George Kaiser Family …The Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationMaxine and Jack Zarro…The Hardesty Family F…Sanford P & Irene F B…Morningcrest Healthca…Grace & Franklin Bern…Mervin Bovaird Founda…The Sharna and Irvin …Oneok Foundation Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carol Tandy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol Tandy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Youth Services of Tulsa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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