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Edward & Helen Bartlett Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Edward & Helen Bartlett Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$460k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.1MHuman Services$1.5MYouth Development$1.0MHealth$942kArts & Culture$529kCrime & Legal$475kEmployment$475kCommunity Improvement$230kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $682k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $568k
  • $250k+2 grants · $777k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CREEK COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
KID'S KLOSET CO SAPULPA PUBLIC SCHO$40,000
BRISTOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION$35,000
DVIS$35,000
CAMP LOUGHRIDGE$32,600
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CLAREHOUSE: $23k → 15%THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA: $15k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $16k → 15%THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA: $15k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $10k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $7k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $7k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $6k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $6k → 15%THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY: $6k → 15%DVIS: $45k → 15%DVIS: $35k → 15%THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY: $4k → 15%DVIS: $35k → 15%DVIS: $35k → 15%THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY: $2k → 15%DVIS: $35k → 15%DVIS: $35k → 15%THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY: $1k → 15%THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%DVIS: $34k → 15%DVIS: $35k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVCES: $25k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVCES: $25k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVCES: $25k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVCES: $25k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVCES: $25k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $30k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $30k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%BOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC: $10k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $10k → 15%BOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC: $10k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $10k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 59 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
20

Total granted

$15M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • OS
    Oklahoma State University Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +46%
  • The University of Tulsa
    8× · 2017–2025 · $861k · revenue +8%
  • CC
    CARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • The Foundation for Tulsa Schools
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -79%
  • Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -64%
  • OI
    OASIS Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $24k
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
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

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

Employment
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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3
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Oklahoma Disability Law Center Inc

To protect, promote and expand the rights of people with disabilities.

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

—
7
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
9
Oklahoma Educational Memorial Trust Fdn

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…

Education
10
Horizons of Okaloosa County Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

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

Education
12
Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Green Country Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 81 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAPULPA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,384,300 · OtherSAPULPA PUBLIC SCHOOLSCARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC: $585,000 · OtherCARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INCINDIAN NATION CNCL BOY SCOUTS OF AM: $410,000 · OtherINDIAN NATION CNCL BOY SCOUTS OF AMCREEK COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $360,000 · Other+54 more: $3,459,648 · Other+54 moreOklahoma State University Foundation: $3,413,190 · EducationOklahoma State University FoundationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,236,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INCThe University of Tulsa: $860,500 · EducationThe University of Tulsa+3 more: $245,000 · EducationDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $288,500 · Human ServicesFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $190,000 · Human ServicesLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Infant Services Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesClarehouse Inc: $75,293 · Human ServicesPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Arc of Oklahoma Inc: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $36,210 · Human ServicesSHOW INC: $444,923 · EmploymentTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $295,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthBRISTOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $298,000 · PhilanthropySAPULPA PARK FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,198,948Education$5,755,190Human Services$885,003Employment$444,923Health$320,000Philanthropy$298,000Community Improvement$180,000

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 budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $3,413,190 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,236,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $860,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARING COMMUNITY FRIENDS INC: $585,000 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetSHOW INC: $444,923 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetCREEK COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $360,000 over 9y, 39% of budgetBRISTOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $298,000 over 9y, 82% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $295,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $288,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC: $199,200 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $190,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC: $186,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSAPULPA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATIO: $180,087 over 7y, 16% of budgetCAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC: $160,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSTREET SCHOOL INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSAPULPA PARK FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP LOUGHRIDGE: $84,034 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetARTSOK INC: $78,600 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetClarehouse Inc: $75,293 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF CREEK COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTransitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetSAPULPA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $42,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetOKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF STARLIGHT CONCERTS INC: $39,695 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Oklahoma Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC: $26,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTULSA OPERA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY INC: $13,210 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetZEPHYRUS ARTS INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBristow Social Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationTulsa Community Found…Grace & Franklin Bern…Tulsa Area United WayRalph and Frances McG…Mervin Bovaird Founda…The Sharna and Irvin …George Kaiser Family …The Hardesty Family F…One Gas Foundation IncThe David E & Cassie …
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK58× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edward & Helen Bartlett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Helen Bartlett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
12report 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 81 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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