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Darryl and Julie Christner Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$5.0MRecreation & Sports$2.1MHealth$309kReligion$100kHuman Services$52kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
INFLUENCERS TULSA GLOBAL MINISTRIES$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST OKLAHOMA$50,000
TULSA TOUGH INC$50,000
YOUNG LIFE SOUTH TULSA$25,000
A FUTURE FOR VETERANS FOUNDATION$10,000
MENDED LITTLE HEARTS INC$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%A FUTURE FOR VETERANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%INFLUENCERS TULSA GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $50k → 15%RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES: $309k → 16%MENDED LITTLE HEARTS INC: $2k → 10%YOUNG LIFE SOUTH TULSA: $25k → 9%INFLUENCERS TULSA GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $25k → 15%RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%LEGENDS FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST OKLAHOMA: $50k → 15%TULSA TOUGH INC: $50k → 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 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
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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2
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
3
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

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.

Education
4
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools

The Foundation for Tulsa Schools was established to build a stronger community through the support of Tulsa Public Schools.

Education
5
Housing Partners of Tulsa

To provide a wide-range of affordable housing options for low and moderate income tulsans and to promote programs leading to self-sufficiency and home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
6
Tulsa Community Foundation

Tcf is organized and operated for charitable purposes primarily for the long term benefit of the tulsa metropolitan area and eastern oklahoma charitable causes.

Philanthropy
7
Kipp Tulsa Academy College Prep Inc

Kipp tulsa prepares students from educationally under-served neighborhoods in tulsa, ok with the academic, character and life skills necessary for success in college and the competitive world beyond.

Education
8
Downtown Tulsa Partnership Inc

Downtown tulsa partnership leads and empowers community driven initiatives that promote, preserve, and extend the vibrancy, safety, and economic development of downtown tulsa.

Philanthropy
9
Thunder Fellows Foundation

The Thunder Fellows Program, developed by the Oklahoma City Thunder and Creative Arts Agency (CAA), aims to unlock new opportunities in sports, entertainment, and technology for black high school and college students in the Tulsa area.

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10
The University of Tulsa

The university of tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. guided by our commitment to diversity,…

Education
11
Tulsa Community Loan Fund Inc

To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.

Housing & Shelter
12
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation

Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Future Foundation; the most unlike its peers is PAUSE4PAWS 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

5 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. 5 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Oklahoma State University Foundation: $5,000,000 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation+1 more: $6,000 · EducationRIVER PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyRIVER PARKS FOUNDATIONHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $308,500 · HealthTulsa ToughInc: $50,000 · HealthINFLUENCERS TULSA GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $75,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST OKLAHOMA: $50,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE SOUTH TULSA: $25,000 · OtherA FUTURE FOR VETERANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · Other
Education$5,006,000Philanthropy$2,000,000Health$358,500Other$162,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $5,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRIVER PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $308,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTulsa ToughInc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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 Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Tulsa ToughInc ↗
  • Who funds LEGENDS FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Darryl and Julie Christner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darryl and Julie Christner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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