· Private foundation
Edward & Helen Bartlett 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $682k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $568k
- $250k+2 grants · $777k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $460,000 |
| SAPULPA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $317,150 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $167,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $119,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $110,500 |
| CARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS | $65,000 |
| INDIAN NATION CNCL BOY SCOUTS OF AM | $55,000 |
| SHOW INC | $50,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH OKLAHOMA | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| KID'S KLOSET CO SAPULPA PUBLIC SCHO | $40,000 |
| CREEK COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| DVIS | $35,000 |
| BRISTOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CAMP LOUGHRIDGE | $32,600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $845k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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 +27% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +46%
The University of Tulsa8× · 2017–2025 · $861k · revenue +8%- CCCARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue +71%
Funded once
The Foundation for Tulsa Schoolsone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -79%
Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -64%- OIOASIS Incone grant, 2019 · $24k
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.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.
To protect, promote and expand the rights of people with disabilities.
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
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…
To create a path from disability to capability by providing exceptional services so people of all ages can work, plan, learn, achieve personal goals, and live meaningful lives.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Green Country Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sapulpa Park Friends Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 82 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 Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds CARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds CREEK COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAPULPA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAPULPA PARK FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP LOUGHRIDGE ↗
- Who funds ARTSOK INC ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF CREEK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
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 · The Gelvin Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · The David E & Cassie L Temple 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 Edward & Helen Bartlett 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.
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% 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.