· Private foundation
Common Bond 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.
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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND HALL | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TULSA | $250,000 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $225,000 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES | $200,000 |
| RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EAST OKLAHOMA | $175,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE | $150,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF OKLAHOMA | $150,000 |
| THE SPRING FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA | $100,000 |
| LIFE SENIOR SERVICES | $100,000 |
| PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- FCFamily & Childrens Services Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +221%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +106%
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TFTPD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TULSA SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500k
- MCMAYO CLINIC-PROSTATE CANCER - DR EUGENE KWON MEDICAL RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $300k
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.
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
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.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To serve those who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness.
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.
Skillz on wheelz (sow) is a non-profit mobile organization that offers free therapy sessions and case management resources to assist those with limited access to mental health care in the north tulsa area.
The Cardinal Community House is a resource dedicated to assisting individuals experiencing homelessness. Our work is to address urgent critical needs, like housing, while addressing underlying concerns to bring about life-changing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Zoe Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds ZOE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORE HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman 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 · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The David E & Cassie L Temple Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Don & Barbara Thornton Family 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 Common Bond 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.
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% 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.