· Private foundation
Carson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE SPRING | $5,000 |
| MARTHAS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE | $3,000 |
| JOHN 316 | $2,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SAPULPA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $2,000 |
| CARA | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CHARITY BALL INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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; $3k 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
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +19%
LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +69%- TSTHE SPRING SHELTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +395%
Funded once
- CCCREEK COUNTY CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARone grant, 2017 · $3k
- JMJAMES MISSION INCone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
To prevent child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy. the parent child center of tulsa (pcct) has been serving the tulsa community and surrounding areas since 1990. in 2024, pcct served more than 96,000 infants,…
Good samaritan health services,inc provide quality health care to the underserved populations within the community.the organization integrate support from the community and emphasize a holistic approach to healthcare.
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,…
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.
The shade tree, inc. (organization), a nevada nonprofit corporation, provides temporary shelter for homeless and abused women and children in crisis and offers life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self reliance. the…
Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
To protect children in our community from physical and sexual abuse through education, advocacy, forensic , medical and mental health services.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Sass go is on a mission to eradicate assault, abuse, and trafficking against women and girls globally through prevention education, self defense training, and case consulting. our dedicated team believes all women deserve to learn the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Spring Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sapulpa Area Chamber Foundatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 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 SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds Martha's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oklahoma City Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY BALL INC ↗
- Who funds Joy in the Cause Company ↗
- Who funds JAMES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SAPULPA PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAPULPA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Carson 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.
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.