· Private foundation
Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $216k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $974k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA THE | $500,000 |
| HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER AT OU | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HOLLAND HALL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS | $50,000 |
| IRON GATE INC | $37,500 |
| TULSA DAY CENTER INC | $36,500 |
| TOWN & COUNTRY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA | $30,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
144 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 22 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The University of Tulsa5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +16%- OSOklahoma State University Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +63%
- MHMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma5× · 2020–2024 · $709k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- AOACADEMY OF ENDOSCOPY INCone grant, 2020 · $187k · revenue -86% · 71% of their budget
Still She Rises Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $180k · revenue +37%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -9%
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 regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
How this is measured
199 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. 199 of the 248 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF ENDOSCOPY INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds Still She Rises Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Jewish Film Institute ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SAFETY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse 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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Supporters of Families With Sickle Cell Disease: 26% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc: 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
- Ability Resources Inc: 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc: 8% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: 8% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc: 3% of income from government
- Theatre Tulsa Inc: 2% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute: 1% of income from government
- Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc: 0% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
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