· Private foundation
Cecil and Virgie Burton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY17–19, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cecil and Virgie Burton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cecil and Virgie Burton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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