· Private foundation
Houston Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 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 $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN LYNCH SPEAKS | $105,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES | $20,140 |
| SANCTUARY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TULSA LIBRARY TRUST | $10,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| RIVER OAKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,200 |
| JOHN 15 ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| YOUR ONE DEGREE | $3,600 |
| DAY OF HOPE INC | $3,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,400 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 12% of Houston Family Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- JLJOHN LYNCH SPEAKS INC4× · 2019–2025 · $347k · revenue +76% · 34% of their budget
- YAYOD ASSOCIATES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +40%
- FOFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC2× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- UWUP WITH TREES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +74%
- GAGeneration Alivegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +46%
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.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
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…
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
We exist to bring an end to human trafficking in Nepal, and to see lives and communities transformed
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Nehi Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 JOHN LYNCH SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds YOD ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UP WITH TREES INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Generation Alive ↗
- Who funds THE DEMAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TENWEK INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEHI Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Oxley Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Waters Charitable Foundation · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation · Ruth Nelson Family Foundation · The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare 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 Houston Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% 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.