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Osteopathic Founders Foundation
The mission of the Osteopathic Founders Foundation is to support osteopathic medical education, to enhance the public's understanding of osteopathic medicine, and to improve the health of the community through projects consistent with the osteopathic philosophy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $47,635 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $216,582 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $168,947 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $10,135 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma | $10,000 |
| Tulsa CARES | $7,500 |
| Iron Gate | $5,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc | $5,000 |
| Youth Services of Tulsa Inc | $5,000 |
| Kendall Whittier Inc | $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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +46%
- HOHealth Outreach Prevention Education Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +327%
- HRHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES3× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- OOOSU ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $182k
TULSA DAY CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -1%- OMOSU MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Crossover health services (chs) envisions a christian healthcare movement where faith, strong relationships, and shared resources drive community restoration and eliminate health disparities. we believe that healthcare is a right, not a…
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
To extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do.
To empower the american indian through exceptional healthcare.
Poverty alleviation/homelessness prevention
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors Along the Line and the most unlike its peers is Kendall Whittier Main Street 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 35% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 30 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 Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc ↗
- Who funds HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds LA COSECHA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Caring Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Kendall Whittier Main Street Inc ↗
- Who funds Sand Springs Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Kendall-Whittier Inc ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH 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 · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc · Hille Family Charitable Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Gelvin Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Morningcrest Healthcare 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 Osteopathic Founders 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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