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Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
117
Grants FY2024
95
Organizations funded FY2023
26%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$9,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
95 to 134
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$50M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving85$2.1M26%
FY202395$2.2M26%
FY202299$2.3M21%
FY2021134$4.9M25%
FY2020132$3.6Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$4.3MHuman Services$1.5MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$854kHousing & Shelter$686kCrime & Legal$672kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Tulsa$2,612,75050%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$2,017,40021%
Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma$709,09052%
Planned Parenthood Great Plains$385,00051%
Family & Childrens Services Inc$360,00040%
Congregation Emanu-El$313,5005n/a
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc$300,00031%
Holland Hall$254,8265n/a
Tulsa Day Center Inc$230,06051%
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc$220,00031%
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All grantees of Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Tulsa$2,612,75050%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$2,017,40021%
Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma$709,09052%
Planned Parenthood Great Plains$385,00051%
Family & Childrens Services Inc$360,00040%
Congregation Emanu-El$313,5005n/a
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc$300,00031%
Holland Hall$254,8265n/a
Tulsa Day Center Inc$230,06051%
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc$220,00031%
Youth Services of Tulsa Inc$208,20051%
Academy of Endoscopy Inc$187,000171%
Iron Gate Inc$182,50052%
The Town & Country School Inc$182,50051%
Still She Rises Inc$180,00016%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$176,00050%
Tulsa Area United Way$150,00050%
Mishkan Chicago$131,0005n/a
Jewish Film Institute$129,93552%
Assistance League of Tulsa Inc$125,00053%
The Bridges Foundation$125,00051%
Tulsa Community College Foundation$112,22522%
Temple Israel$95,6655n/a
Francis W Parker School$93,20040%
Family Safety Center Inc$80,00051%
Camp Kesem National$76,00050%
Newview Oklahoma Inc$75,00020%
Clarehouse Inc$75,00051%
Oklahoma Policy Inc$75,00051%
Restore Hope Ministries Inc$65,00051%
Palmer Continuum of Care Inc$60,00021%
Slingshot Fund Inc$60,00034%
Community Health Connection Inc$55,00020%
Vizavance Inc$50,75051%
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$50,00020%
City Year Inc$50,00020%
Emergency Infant Services Inc$50,00021%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$50,00010%
National Abortion Federation$50,00010%
Eastern Oklahoma Donated Dental Services Inc$50,00024%
HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES$49,20050%
Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc$45,00032%
The Center for the Arts$45,00041%
Ability Resources Inc$45,00051%
Close Up Foundation$45,00030%
John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation Inc$44,60053%
Oklahoma Project Woman Inc$42,50032%
Neighbors Along the Line$42,00025%
Youth At Heart Inc$41,00032%
A New Leaf Inc$40,00020%
Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula$37,00040%
Greenwood Cultural Center Inc$36,90043%
Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc$35,00020%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$35,00010%
Dean McGee Eye Institute$35,00020%
A Pocket Full of Hope Inc$30,000216%
Life Senior Services Inc$30,00020%
Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc$30,00020%
Sisu Youth Inc$30,00021%
Crosstown Learning Center Inc$30,00021%
Tulsa County Medical Society Foundation$30,00024%
Street School Inc$30,00021%
San Francisco Food Bank$28,66630%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$27,50040%
The Sentencing Project$27,00020%
Tulsa Hub Syndicate$25,00018%
Sinai Assisted Housing Foundation Inc$25,00052%
National Alopecia Areata Foundation$25,00050%
Tulsa Library Trust$25,00050%
Saint Simeon's Episcopal Home Foundation$25,00041%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$25,00010%
Tulsa Casa Inc$24,00022%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$23,00040%
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$22,40020%
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$21,22750%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc$20,00020%
Reading Partners$20,00020%
Revitalize T-Town$20,00021%
Northwestern University$20,00040%
Elevated Access Inc$20,00021%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$20,00040%
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network$20,00021%
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children$20,00022%
Jewish Children's Regional Service$20,00011%
Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc$20,00010%
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$20,00020%
Essie Justice Group$17,50030%
University of Chicago$17,00050%
Brady Craft Inc$15,50016%
The Bottom Line Inc$15,00050%
Creativity Explored Inc$15,00020%
She-Can Global Inc$13,00051%
Project Open Hand$12,79020%
International Rescue Committee INC$12,50020%
Jewish Funders Network$10,80030%
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice Dba Curyj$10,50030%
Philanthropy Southwest$10,20040%
Global Gardens Incorporated$10,00021%
Bit by Bit Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$10,00052%
Oklahoma Caring Foundation Inc$10,00021%
Save The Children Federation Inc$10,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
Left Field Books Incorporated$10,0002n/a
Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc$10,00021%
The Arc of Oklahoma Inc$10,00011%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10,00010%
Hasidah$10,00025%
Supporters of Families With Sickle Cell Disease$10,00011%
Mercy Corps$10,00010%
Tulsa Girls Art School Project Inc$10,00023%
Domestic Violence Intervention Services$10,00010%
Tipping Point Community$10,00030%
Tulsa Historical Society$9,40021%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$8,00020%
Tiba Foundation$8,00040%
Camp Thunderbird Charitable Foundation$7,50027%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$7,00030%
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc$7,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$6,66730%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$6,25030%
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation$6,00020%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$6,00020%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$5,83850%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company$5,80040%
Chabad of Lincoln Park Nfp$5,7203n/a
Uncommon Law$5,00010%
Land Together Dba Insight Garden Program$5,00010%
Downtown Streets Inc$5,00020%
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc$5,00010%
YWCA Tulsa Inc$5,00020%
Old Town School of Folk Music$5,00020%
Crop Organization$5,00010%
Friends of the Majestic$5,00011%
La Cocina$5,00010%
Type Media Center Inc$5,00010%
Chi-Care$5,00010%
Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$5,00011%
Cardiovascular Research Foundation of Southern California$5,00010%
Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc$5,00010%
Sigma Delta Tau Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Actblue Charities Inc$5,00010%
Open Door Legal$5,00010%
Youth Law Center$5,00020%
The Center for Individuals With Physical Challenges$5,00010%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums$5,00010%
Fresh Lifelines for Youth Inc$5,00020%
Congregation Bnai Brith$5,0001n/a
Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College$5,00010%
The Appeal Inc$5,00011%
Lift to Rise$5,00010%
Duke University$5,00010%
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc$4,60010%
San Francisco Hillel$3,50010%
The Chicago Bar Foundation$3,50020%
Uc Riverside Foundation$3,50010%
Urban Alchemy$3,50010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa$3,50020%
Bnai Butte$3,0002n/a
Oklahomans for Equality Inc$3,00010%
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory at Gothic$3,00020%
2164 Inc$2,90010%
Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Inc$2,83520%
River Parks Foundation$2,50010%
St James Infirmary$2,50010%
The Pencil Box Inc$2,50010%
Repro TLC$2,50021%
The Marshall Project Inc$2,50010%
Shanti Project$2,50010%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County$2,50010%
TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE$2,50010%
Flyaway Productions$2,50011%
The Honeycomb Project Inc Nfp$2,50010%
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants$2,50010%
Theatre Tulsa Inc$2,00021%
Montecito Trails Foundation$2,00020%
Oklahoma Engineering Foundation Inc$2,00021%
The Aaron K Stern Foundation$1,5001n/a
Gunnison Valley Health Foundation$1,50010%
University of Colorado Foundation$1,25010%
BeHeard Movement Inc$1,00010%
Trinity University$1,00010%
Ubuntu Pathways Inc$1,00010%
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc$1,00010%
Little Star Pony Foundation$1,0001n/a
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County$1,00010%
Earth Island Institute Inc$1,00010%
Chicago Abortion Fund$50010%
Chicago Period Project Nfp$5001n/a
The Humane Society of Tulsa$5001n/a
No Shame on U Inc$50010%
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$50010%
Temple Emanu-El Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Chicago Jewish Day School$50010%
Cerebral Palsy Soccer Inc$50010%
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc$50010%
Congregation Rodfei Zedek$5001n/a
Sharsheret Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 182 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Tulsa: $2,612,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $2,017,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $709,090 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Plains: $385,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $360,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTulsa Children's Museum Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTulsa Day Center Inc: $230,060 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLegal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: $220,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Services of Tulsa Inc: $208,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAcademy of Endoscopy Inc: $187,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetIron Gate Inc: $182,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetThe Town & Country School Inc: $182,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetStill She Rises Inc: $180,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $176,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Area United Way: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Film Institute: $129,935 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAssistance League of Tulsa Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetThe Bridges Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTulsa Community College Foundation: $112,225 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $93,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Safety Center Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $76,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNewview Oklahoma Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClarehouse Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOklahoma Policy Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRestore Hope Ministries Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPalmer Continuum of Care Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSlingshot Fund Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Health Connection Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVizavance Inc: $50,750 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCity Year Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Abortion Federation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEastern Oklahoma Donated Dental Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES: $49,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOklahoma Arts Institute Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Center for the Arts: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAbility Resources Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetClose Up Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJohn Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation Inc: $44,600 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetOklahoma Project Woman Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNeighbors Along the Line: $42,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetYouth At Heart Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetA New Leaf Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula: $37,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGreenwood Cultural Center Inc: $36,900 over 4y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 182.

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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 FoundationOK145.2× affinity75 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 · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · One Gas Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Zarrow Families 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.

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Find your warmest path to Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation

How much does Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation give?
Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation reported 117 grants totaling $2,839,585 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 134 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (24%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The University of Tulsa ($2.6M), Oklahoma State University Foundation ($2.0M), Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ($709k).
Does Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation.
Where is Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation based?
Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation is based in OK.

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 248 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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