· Private foundation
Commonwealth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AUTHORITY | $75,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $75,000 |
| THE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST | $75,000 |
| GREEN COUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS | $50,000 |
| TULSA LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC | $25,000 |
| TULSA OPERA INC | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF TULSA HISTORY | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OKLAHOMA | $20,000 |
| TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $20,000 |
| TULSA BALLET | $20,000 |
| PHOENIX RISING ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE PENCIL BOX | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your 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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
The University of Tulsa6× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +16%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS4× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +119%
- TLTulsa Lawyers for Children Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +11%
Funded once
The Foundation for Tulsa Schoolsone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -70%- TZTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +53%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $60k
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.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
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.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Tulsa and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Rising Alternative School Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds THE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Foundation for Architecture ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOR BUNKER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Rising Alternative School Fdn ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION RESOURCES ↗
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: 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
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 Commonwealth 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.
- George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc — 68% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% 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.