· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| TULSA LIBRARY TRUST | $10,000 |
| SANCTUARY CHURCH | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Houston Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 66%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Houston Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houston Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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