· Private foundation
Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
- $250k+1 grant · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $252,210 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $100,000 |
| MARRIAGE AND FAMILY INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| WOVENLIFE | $75,000 |
| MCCALL'S CHAPEL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA | $33,800 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $25,000 |
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TULSA LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR | $15,000 |
| CAMP LOUGHRIDGE | $15,000 |
| STREET SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 59% 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.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 University of Tulsa5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +6%- MAMarriage and Family Initiative Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +50% · 83% of their budget
- MCMcCalls Chapel School Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
The family safety center exists to promote safety and justice in tulsa county through co-located multi-disciplinary services that offer protection, hope and healing to victims of intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault,…
Our mission is rooted in the belief that meaningful relationships restore communities. through relational service and dignified housing solutions, we work to help people move from surviving to thriving.
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.
111Tulsa exists to mobilize the local church to see that no child is without a family in Tulsa County.
Mccall's mission is to enable individuals with developmental disabilities to be productive members of society; to be good neighbors in the community; to make independent, responsible choices; and to live dignified, happy, and self…
To serve those who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness.
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
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.
Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.
Oklahoma indian legal services is dedicated to representation where federal indian, tribal and treaty law arise. oils is a nonprofit corporation primarily funded by the legal services corporation (lsc). establisehd in 1981, its purpose is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Green Country Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marriage and Family Initiative Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 49 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 University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Marriage and Family Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOVENLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds McCalls Chapel School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP LOUGHRIDGE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds GO LIFE MOBILE MEDICAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa 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: Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way
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 Jess L and Miriam B Stevens 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.
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 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.
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