How much did Mervin Bovaird Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Mervin Bovaird Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

johnpartnersmuseum

2019

greater tulsajohnmuseummusic

2020

musicosumuseum

2021

museum

2022

handsmuseum

2023

hands

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $93k
$10k–50k46 grants · $801k
$50k–250k6 grants · $480k
$250k+2 grants · $594k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants

Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$330,000
University of Tulsa$264,000
Oklahoma State University Foundation$140,000
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma$80,000
The Nature Conservancy$75,000
University of Oklahoma - Tulsa$75,000
Reading Partners$60,000
Tulsa Symphony$50,000
Tulsa Community Foundation$45,000
Eden Village of Tulsa$40,000
Tulsa Tough Inc$40,000
Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc$30,000
Newview Oklahoma Inc$25,000
Tulsa Zoo Management Inc$25,000
Stand in the Gap Ministries$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 124 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

124 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124

Total granted

$14M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+60%

Still filing today

52%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

Tulsa Community Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +81%
Philbrook Museum of Art Inc
2× · 2022–2024 · $410k · revenue +142%
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Tulsa Tough Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +313%

Funded once

Child Abuse Network Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +60%
TC
Tulsa Child Abuse Network
one grant, 2021 · $100k
GM
Gilcrease Museum
one grant, 2019 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Tulsa Childrens Museum Inc

To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.

Arts & Culture

Tulsa Legacy Charter School

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

Education

Tulsa Bike Share Inc

Transforming our Tulsa community by providing a high quality, convenient, and affordable bicycle transit system that connects people to places where they live, work, and play.

Environment

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

The City Lights Foundation of Oklahoma

We serve tulsa's homeless and low-income community through multiple programs that provide basic needs, build relationships and provide hope and restoration.

Human Services

Tulsa Community Loan Fund Inc

To lend or grant needed funds to other nonprofits serving low-income individuals.

Housing & Shelter

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

One Hope Tulsa Inc

One Hope cultivates safe spaces and relationships for neighborhood flourishing.

Community Improvement

Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma

Empowering families on their journey to independence.

Housing & Shelter

Housing Partners of Tulsa

To provide a wide-range of affordable housing options for low and moderate income tulsans.

Housing & Shelter

Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

Enhancing the image and appearance of Oklahoma City through education, programs and community engagement.

Environment

Tulsa Spca

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 12 & 12 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Consumer Recovery 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/98

the rest of the field

13%

511/3,847

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.

05the grantee network

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/96

Grantees still filing

73/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,792,723Education$3,029,000Philanthropy$1,695,000Human Services$1,498,500Arts & Culture$1,193,000Health$532,500Youth Development$350,000

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.

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.

The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK116.4× affinity55 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 · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc

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 organisation Mervin Bovaird 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

58get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Tulsa Literary Coalition.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~43 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +97% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810938231 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Tulsa Literary Coalition, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 43 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Mervin Bovaird Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mervin Bovaird Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Mervin Bovaird Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mervin Bovaird Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Mervin Bovaird Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mervin Bovaird Foundation?

More from the funding graph