· Private foundation
George L and Wanda a Brown 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $46,000 |
| MONTE CASSINO SCHOOL INC | $38,500 |
| BIXBY EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| BISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $2,000 |
| TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN | $2,000 |
| TULSA SOCCER CLUB | $1,000 |
| TULSA GARDEN CENTER | $250 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +98% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +253%- BEBIXBY EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +48%
- ACATTIC CONVERSATIONS YOGA FOUNDATION DBA HUMBLE WARRIOR COLLECTIVE LTD2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +98%
Funded once
TULSA DREAM CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +55%- FTFortuna Tulsa Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
Meals on Wheels of Norman Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
The mission of Fab Lab Tulsa is to empower our community by providing education, community, workforce, and business programming that teaches innovation, design-thinking, problem-solving and change-making, together with open access to 21st…
To provide nutritious meals, wellness checks and caring contact to elderly, disabled, and other homebound individuals in Tulsa and the surrounding areas. By combating the triple threats of aging - hunger, isolation, and loss of…
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
The mission of the foundation is to develop, create, and maintain programs in the tulsa area designed for health promotion, health education, and disease prevention and treatment through the professional expertise and engagement of the…
Strengthening oklahoma museums
We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. may all who leave here know the impact of violence. may this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.
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.
The mission of the oklahoma city museum of art is to enrich lives through the visual arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Dream Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BIXBY EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATTIC CONVERSATIONS YOGA FOUNDATION DBA HUMBLE WARRIOR COLLECTIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ALLIANCE FOR MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Joy in the Cause Company ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Garden Center ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 George L and Wanda a Brown 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.
- Oklahoma Alliance for Manufacturing Excellence Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% 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.