· Public charity
George Kaiser Family Foundation
The George Kaiser Family Foundation ("GKFF") is organized for the specific and primary purpose of benefiting, performing the functions of, or carrying out the purpose of that class of publicly supported organizations, including Tulsa Community Foundation, that are described in Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) or (2) of the Internal…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k145 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k139 grants · $16M
- $250k+78 grants · $81M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Action Project of Tulsa | $20,163,905 |
| Housing Partners of Tulsa Inc | $10,750,000 |
| Still She Rises Tulsa | $2,427,574 |
| The Parent Child Center of Tulsa | $2,379,616 |
| Grand Lake Mental Health Ctr Inc | $2,000,000 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $2,000,000 |
| Family and Children's Services | $1,718,423 |
| Tulsa City-County Health Depart | $1,585,541 |
| Tulsa Educare Inc | $1,577,326 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $1,527,536 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $1,432,059 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $1,407,052 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $1,400,000 |
| The Parent Child Center of Tulsa | $1,275,785 |
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 (FY20–24, $139.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of George Kaiser Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
271 repeat relationships — 202 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.9M 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
COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $94M · revenue +16% · 37% of their budget- HPHOUSING PARTNERS OF TULSA4× · 2020–2024 · $29M · revenue +494% · 48% of their budget
The University of Tulsa5× · 2020–2024 · $17M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $8.8M
- HAHillman Acceleratorone grant, 2021 · $1.7M · revenue +24%
- TGTHE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST3× · 2021–2023 · $802k · revenue +7% · 27% of their budget
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.
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 improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
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.
CDFI Friendly Tulsa is bringing capital to Tulsa to address a range of unmet financing needs in communities of color.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Butterfly AEffect Syndicate. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
354 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. 354 of the 437 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING PARTNERS OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKPOP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA EDUCARE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROWING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Still She Rises Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds GRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Hillman Accelerator ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND CORPORATION ↗
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 Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Oneok Foundation Inc
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 George Kaiser Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc — 100% of income from government
- Tulsa Educare Inc — 46% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Center for Housing Solutions Inc — 34% of income from government
- Guiding Right Inc — 28% of income from government
- Morton Comprehensive Health Services Inc — 25% of income from government
- Tulsa Economic Development Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Growing Together Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dove Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 0% 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.