Oklahoma · 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Common Bond Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $1.9M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $2.2M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $3.7M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $3.3M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $2.9M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.4M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.8M | 63% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $2.5M | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| John 316 Mission | $2,275,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Family & Childrens Services Inc | $1,650,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Assistance League of Tulsa Inc | $1,620,000 | 9 | 30% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $1,600,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Life Senior Services Inc | $1,430,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc | $1,325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $900,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Little Light House Inc | $900,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc | $900,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma | $850,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Common Bond Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Common Bond Foundation
- How much does Common Bond Foundation give?
- Common Bond Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,925,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Common Bond Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Education (13%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Common Bond Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: John 316 Mission ($2.3M), Family & Childrens Services Inc ($1.6M), Assistance League of Tulsa Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Common Bond Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Common Bond Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Common Bond Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma.
- Where is Common Bond Foundation based?
- Common Bond Foundation is based in OK.
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