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Gratitude Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Gratitude Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$70kReligion$42kYouth Development$36kArts & Culture$25kEmployment$25kEducation$23kHealth$9kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH$15,000
NEW LEAF$10,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE$10,000
YOUTH AT HEART$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE INC$5,000
BIKE CLUB MCCLURE ELEMENTARY$5,000
TULSA TOWN HALL$5,000
THE COMMON GOOD$5,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
IRON GATE INC$500
MCCLURE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$356
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE COMMON GOOD: $15k → 14%HOME OF HOPE: $1k → 21%THE COMMON GOOD: $5k → 14%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$217k · 11 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$217k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+16%

Still filing today

55%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • A NEW LEAF INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +44%
  • TH
    Town Hall of Tulsa Corp
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +974%
  • LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • The Pencil Box Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -77%
  • GG
    GAINING GROUND CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +97%
  • FAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +11%
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
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
2
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
3
Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health
4
Livefree Okc Inc

Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.

Human Services
5
Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

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.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Ne Okc Community & Cultural Center Garden

NE OKC Garden is dedicated to low income communities to show the importance of food choices, healthy diets and lifestyles, and nutrition education. Our goal is to foster a sense of community by reconnecting people with locally grown foods…

Environment
9
Going Hard for Christ Community Center Inc

Operate a volunteer community center for disadvantage individuals in tulsa, oklahoma.

Human Services
10
Tulsa Pop Kids Inc

Tulsa pop kids, inc. is a nonprofit whose mission is to advance literacy, education, inspiration, and aspiration to the children of our community through pop culture and entertainment.

Education
11
Oklahoma Parents Center Inc

The programs and services of OPC are based on the concept of educating parents to improve their child's quality of life. Our mission is to train, educate and support parents, families, professionals and consumers in building partnerships…

Health
12
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tulsa Youth Rowing Association. 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

12 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. 12 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $42,000 · OtherHARVARD AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCHASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $30,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUEA NEW LEAF INC: $25,000 · OtherA NEW LEAF INCLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $20,000 · OtherLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INCIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Other+7 more: $20,132 · Other+7 moreYouth At Heart Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesYouth At Heart IncTHE COMMON GOOD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMON GOOD INC+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTown Hall of Tulsa Corp: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTown Hall …The Pencil Box Inc: $10,000 · EducationGAINING GROUND CORPORATION: $10,000 · EducationFAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTULSA YOUTH ROWING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentIRON GATE INC: $2,700 · Religion1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$166,132Human Services$51,000Community Improvement$25,000Education$20,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Youth Development$5,000Religion$2,700Crime & Legal$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouth At Heart Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTown Hall of Tulsa Corp: $25,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGAINING GROUND CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTULSA YOUTH ROWING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME OF HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Youth At Heart Inc ↗
  • Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
  • Who funds Town Hall of Tulsa Corp ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMON GOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
  • Who funds GAINING GROUND CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA YOUTH ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOME OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds 1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM 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.

Tulsa Community Found…The Sharna and Irvin …Sanford P & Irene F B…The Gelvin FoundationOneok Foundation IncFlint Family Foundati…Grace & Franklin Bern…Ralph and Frances McG…George Kaiser Family …The Anne and Henry Za…Sarkeys FoundationStuart Family Foundat…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK28.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · The Gelvin Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Flint Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Stuart Family 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 Gratitude Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gratitude Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%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
    8get no government money at all
    4report 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 24 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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