· Private foundation
Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GATHER PLACE TULSA FUND | $400,000 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $95,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $90,000 |
| PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA INC | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH | $20,000 |
| THE LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC | $8,500 |
| CLAREHOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| ST BARNABAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PAUSE4PAWS INC | $5,000 |
| BRADY CRAFT ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 23% of Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation’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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k 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
- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +73%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +253%
The University of Tulsa2× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
Funded once
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Incone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +11% · 38% of their budget- TCTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -29%
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%
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 prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Supporting organization for the parent child center of tulsa providing services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 86 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FAMILY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Living Arts of Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women 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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Oxley 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 Judith and Jean Adams Charitable 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.
- Morton Comprehensive Health Services Inc — 25% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% 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.