· Private foundation
Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $262,000 |
| TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| YWCA TULSA | $200,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $185,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $140,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $131,042 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $100,000 |
| TULSA OPERA INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $92,000 |
| TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC | $90,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $60,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CENTENNIAL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $30,000 |
| TULSA YOUTH SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| SCOTT FAMILY AMAZEUM | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 -3% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
The University of Tulsa4× · 2021–2024 · $761k · revenue +6%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $658k · revenue +45%
YWCA TULSA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- OSOklahoma State University Foundationone grant, 2023 · $102k · revenue -3%
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY - PATTI JOHNSON WILSON FOUNDATION ANNUAL SCHOLARSone grant, 2021 · $45k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - PATTI JOHNSON WILSON FOUNDATION ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
To share the experience of chamber music through live performance and community engagement
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
Theatre tulsa provided theatre education programming throughout the fiscal year serving 125 students. the education program included 3 staged youth shows.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
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.
Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Tulsa and the most unlike its peers is Animal Aid of Tulsa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NW ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
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: Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · Zink Family Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Avery Family Trust · Poe Family Foundation · The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Inc · The Gerald H Westby Jr 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 Patti Johnson Wilson 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.
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% 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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