· Private foundation
Lou and Connie Miller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Tulsa River Parks Authority | $25,000 |
| University of Oklahoma College of Law | $25,000 |
| Tulsa Girls Art School | $15,000 |
| Clarehouse | $10,000 |
| Operation Hope Ministry | $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 |
| Seminole High School Scholarship Endowment | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Living Arts of Tulsa 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lou and Connie Miller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lou and Connie Miller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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