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Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$781k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$5.6MArts & Culture$4.3MEducation$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MScience & Tech$250kHuman Services$123kFood & Nutrition$30kYouth Development$29kOther$0
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ST BARNABAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
CLAREHOUSE INC$5,000
NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE$5,000
HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTY INC$5,000
PAUSE4PAWS INC$5,000
BRADY CRAFT ALLIANCE$5,000
GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $40k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $5k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $10k → 15%CLAREHOUSE INC: $15k → 15%CLAREHOUSE INC: $10k → 15%CLAREHOUSE INC: $5k → 15%CLAREHOUSE INC: $1k → 15%CLAREHOUSE INC: $1k → 15%CLAREHOUSE INC: $1k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $3k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $1k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $10k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
RI
MD
NC
OK
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 40 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
37

Total granted

$7.7M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+15%

Still filing today

68%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TB
    TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +73%
  • THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +253%
  • The University of Tulsa
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +11% · 38% of their budget
  • TC
    TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -29%
  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%
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 Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
2
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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3
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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4
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
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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6
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
7
The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc Endowment Trust

Supporting organization for the parent child center of tulsa providing services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy.

Human Services
8
Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust

Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.

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9
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
10
Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group Inc

Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.

Arts & Culture
11
Tulsa Community Loan Fund Inc

To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.

Housing & Shelter
12
Oklahoma Educational Memorial Trust Fdn

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 86 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
45/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,250,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINEMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,060,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHOLLAND HALL: $800,000 · OtherHOLLAND HALLUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $408,039 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISGATHER PLACE TULSA FUND: $400,000 · OtherGATHER PLACE TULSA FUND+40 more: $476,332 · Other+40 moreTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $1,045,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA BALLET THEATRE INCTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,040,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART I…Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTulsa Symphony Orchestra IncTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCTULSA OPERA INC: $160,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $63,000 · Arts & CultureMAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $595,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN…+6 more: $29,000 · HealthThe University of Tulsa: $1,005,000 · EducationThe Unive…University of Chicago: $100,000 · EducationUniversit…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST…+4 more: $26,000 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,104,402 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNI…+2 more: $8,000 · Community ImprovementTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $643,346 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyEmergency Infant Services Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesClarehouse Inc: $33,000 · Human ServicesResonance Center for Women Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$4,394,871Arts & Culture$3,558,000Health$2,624,000Education$1,201,000Community Improvement$1,112,402Philanthropy$658,346Human Services$105,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,104,402 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $1,045,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,040,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $1,005,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $643,346 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $595,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTULSA OPERA INC: $160,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $70,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetClarehouse Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FAMILY SCHOOL: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiving Arts of Tulsa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony Project Tulsa: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Outreach Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC TULSA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPAUSE4PAWS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKNIGHTS TRUST INC: $5,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONSPIRARE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Lawyers for Children Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT OF TULSA INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTown Hall of Tulsa Corp: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Literary Coalition Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Oratorio Chorus Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationThe Hardesty Family F…Mervin Bovaird Founda…Flint Family Foundati…Tulsa Community Found…Grace & Franklin Bern…George Kaiser Family …Ralph and Frances McG…The Sharna and Irvin …Charles and Lynn Schu…The Oxley Foundation
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK61.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 86 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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