Oklahoma · Private foundation
Commonwealth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $553k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Commonwealth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 17 | $553k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $486k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $418k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $381k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $298k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $344k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Tulsa | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Tulsa Schools | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc | $225,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Gilcrease Museum Management Trust | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Route 66 Alliance Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Great Plains | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tulsa Opera Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Tulsa Zoo Management Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Tulsa | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Tulsa Schools | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc | $225,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Gilcrease Museum Management Trust | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Route 66 Alliance Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Great Plains | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tulsa Opera Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Tulsa Zoo Management Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Baker University | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oklahoma Policy Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tulsa Foundation for Architecture | $45,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Honor Bunker Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Circle Cinema Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Pencil Box Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hospice of Green Country Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Phoenix Rising Alternative School Fdn | $20,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Street School Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Frontier Media Group | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Action Resources | $4,000 | 3 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Commonwealth Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Stuart Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation
How this is measured
About Commonwealth Foundation
- How much does Commonwealth Foundation give?
- Commonwealth Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $552,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Commonwealth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (28%), Animals (13%).
- Who are Commonwealth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The University of Tulsa ($280k), The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ($250k), George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc ($225k).
- Does Commonwealth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Commonwealth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Commonwealth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation.
- Where is Commonwealth Foundation based?
- Commonwealth Foundation is based in OK.
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