· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE SPRING | $5,000 |
| MARTHAS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ST JUDE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE | $2,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $2,000 |
| SAPULPA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| JOHN 316 | $2,000 |
| CARA | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CHARITY BALL INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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