How much does Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation give?

Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $100,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Housing & Shelter (5%), Human Services (4%).

Who are Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc ($113k), Tulsa Opera Inc ($87k), Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc ($52k).

Does Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation.

Where is Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation based?

Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation is based in OK.

Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation

Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$494kHousing & Shelter$34kHuman Services$29kYouth Development$21kHealth$14kEnvironment$13kRecreation & Sports$11kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $66k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART	$25,000
CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE	$8,000
TULSA OPERA INC	$6,000
TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$6,000
TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN	$5,000
TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
FOUNDATION FOR TULSA SCHOOLS	$3,000
GATESWAY FOUNDATION	$3,000
YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA	$3,000
TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC	$3,000
FRIENDS OF OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL	$2,500
THE CHURCH STUDIO	$2,500
THEATRE TULSA INC	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$618k · 35 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$618k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

-2%

Still filing today

77%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $113k · revenue +207%
TULSA OPERA INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $87k · revenue +69%
OA
OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +30%

Funded once

TG
THE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -50%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $3k
TP
TULSA POP KIDS INC
one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -92%

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.

Tulsa Legacy Charter School

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

Education

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

Tulsa Spca

The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.

Animals

Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.

Education

Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust

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

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Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

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.

Community Improvement

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

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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Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights

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.

—

Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

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

Employment

Ywca Tulsa Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services

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 World Book Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 64 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

27/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$424,500Other$165,300Human Services$57,000Food & Nutrition$8,500Education$6,000Health$4,500Housing & Shelter$2,000

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.

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 Zarrow FoundationOK62.4× 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 · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma

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 Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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