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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$13MEducation$3.0MFood & Nutrition$2.4MHealth$1.3MCrime & Legal$750kPhilanthropy$750kHousing & Shelter$700kReligion$551kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$175,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $100k → 17%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500k → 15%COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $250k → 18%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $200k → 15%COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $200k → 18%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $200k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $200k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $150k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $100k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $100k → 15%DAYSPRING VILLA: $100k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $250k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $100k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $350k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $300k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $250k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $250k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $225k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $200k → 15%DAY SPRING VILLA: $200k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $250k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $200k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $200k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $100k → 15%PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER: $150k → 15%BIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $150k → 15%BIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $75k → 15%BIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $75k → 15%BIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $50k → 15%PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER: $25k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $400k → 15%JOHN 316 MISSION: $300k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $300k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $250k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $250k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $200k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $200k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $200k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $170k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $150k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $150k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $130k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $100k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $100k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $100k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $100k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $300k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $200k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 27 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$21M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+50%

Still filing today

74%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FC
    Family & Childrens Services Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +221%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +139%
  • LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TF
    TPD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TULSA SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC-PROSTATE CANCER - DR EUGENE KWON MEDICAL RESEARCH
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Family Hope House Inc

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.

Health
2
City Rescue Mission Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc

Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
4
Family Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
5
La Luz Organization Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Help in Crisis Inc

Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.

Human Services
7
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

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.…

Health
8
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
9
Tulsa Day Center Inc

To serve those who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
10
Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights
11
Counseling Skillz On Wheelz

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.

Health
12
Oklahoma Halfway House Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN 316 MISSION: $2,275,000 · Human ServicesJOHN 316 MISSIONFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $1,650,000 · Human ServicesFamily & Childrens Services IncASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $1,620,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INCLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $1,430,000 · Human ServicesLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INCResonance Center for Women Inc: $750,000 · Human ServicesResonance Center for Women IncCOOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesBIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $350,000 · Human Services+4 more: $585,000 · Human Services+4 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TULSA: $1,800,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TULSATHE SPRING FOUNDATION: $950,000 · OtherTHE SPRING FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLA: $900,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLALITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $900,000 · OtherLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $900,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF O…TPD FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherTPD FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF TULSA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TULSA SCHOLARSHIP FUNDMAYO CLINIC-PROSTATE CANCER - DR EUGENE KWON MEDICAL RESEARCH: $300,000 · Other+17 more: $2,086,500 · Other+17 moreFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,600,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $900,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…ZOE INSTITUTE INC: $179,300 · EducationZOE INSTITUTE…+1 more: $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $1,325,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $850,000 · HealthTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterPets for Vets Inc: $200,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$9,110,000Other$8,836,500Education$2,729,300Food & Nutrition$1,375,000Health$850,000Housing & Shelter$600,000Public Benefit$200,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN 316 MISSION: $2,275,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $1,650,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $1,620,000 over 9y, 30% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,600,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $1,430,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $1,325,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $900,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $900,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $850,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $750,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $600,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $450,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBIXBY COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $350,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE SPRING SHELTER INC: $300,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetZOE INSTITUTE INC: $179,300 over 2y, 16% of budgetPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oklahoma Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTULSA DREAM CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSTREET SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISAIAH 58 IN HIS SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA DREAM CENTER 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.

Tulsa Community Found…The Anne and Henry Za…Ralph and Frances McG…The Sharna and Irvin …Mervin Bovaird Founda…Maxine and Jack Zarro…The David E & Cassie …Flint Family Foundati…Grace & Franklin Bern…The Hardesty Family F…Sarkeys FoundationDon & Barbara Thornto…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK37.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Common Bond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Common Bond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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