· Private foundation
Cecil and Virgie Burton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| All Souls Unitarian Church | $25,000 |
| Pathways Adult Learning Center | $22,000 |
| Holland Hall | $17,500 |
| Tulsa Botanic Garden | $16,000 |
| The University of Tulsa | $12,000 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| Tulsa Girls Art School | $7,500 |
| St Patrick's Episcopal Church | $6,000 |
| 108 Contemporary | $6,000 |
| Riverfield Country Day School | $6,000 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma | $5,000 |
| Tulsa Day Center | $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 (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
The University of Tulsa8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +8%- PAPathways Adult Learning Center Inc4× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue ×12
- CPCHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- R6ROUTE 66 ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
ARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -5%- OVOklahoma Visual Arts Coalitionone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +7%
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.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
Theatre tulsa provided theatre education programming throughout the fiscal year serving 125 students. the education program included 3 staged youth shows.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.
The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.
The mission of The Sooner Theatre is to change lives, offer diverse perspectives and create a cultural connection to the community through the performing arts and arts education.
Entertains, educates, heals, and inspires through musical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
To provide a theatrical, educational broadway level experience for the youth and audiences of tulsa, oklahoma.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverfield Country Day School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Riverfield Country Day School ↗
- Who funds Living Arts of Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA PROJECT THEATRE 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 · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Zink Family Foundation · Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation · Stuart Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Cecil and Virgie Burton 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% 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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