· Private foundation
Lou and Connie Miller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The University of Oklahoma Foundation | $700,000 |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $300,000 |
| Tulsa Ballet Theatre | $75,000 |
| Street School | $50,000 |
| First Americans Museum | $30,000 |
| University of Oklahoma College of Law | $25,000 |
| Tulsa River Parks Authority | $25,000 |
| Tulsa Girls Art School | $15,000 |
| Clarehouse | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma | $10,000 |
| Neighbors On the Line | $10,000 |
| Tulsa Boys Home | $10,000 |
| St Simeon's Episcopal Church Foundation | $10,000 |
| Operation Hope Ministry | $10,000 |
| Lindsey House | $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 (FY17–24, $287k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +90%
- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +73%
STREET SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- OCOU COLLEGE OF LAWone grant, 2018 · $25k
- HRHominy Ranchers Rural Fire Dept Incone grant, 2021 · $22k
Living Arts of Tulsa Incone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -2%
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.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
To promote ethical conduct among attorneys, to advance the effective administration of our judicial system, to ensure equal access to justice for all citizens and to engender respect for the legal profession, the law and the governing…
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.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Green Country Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hispanic American Foundation 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 42 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 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.
30 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. 30 of the 55 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 Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Hispanic American Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Arts of Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AWARE OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION 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 · One Gas Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Oneok Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord 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 Lou and Connie Miller 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 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.
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