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Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$92,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$262,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 23
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$34M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationOther
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 arriving20$1.8M10%
FY202321$1.3M5%
FY202223$1.1M26%
FY202123$963kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$2.8MArts & Culture$1.6MHuman Services$600kEnvironment$115kHealth$30kAnimals$4kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Tulsa$760,50040%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc$657,50048%
YWCA Tulsa Inc$600,00043%
Oklahoma City University$562,00040%
Tulsa Opera Inc$325,00045%
Kansas State University$287,5004n/a
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$235,25441%
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$205,00041%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$102,00010%
Tulsa Youth Symphony$91,00049%
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All grantees of Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Tulsa$760,50040%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc$657,50048%
YWCA Tulsa Inc$600,00043%
Oklahoma City University$562,00040%
Tulsa Opera Inc$325,00045%
Kansas State University$287,5004n/a
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$235,25441%
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$205,00041%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$102,00010%
Tulsa Youth Symphony$91,00049%
Children's Museum of Nw Arkansas$55,00040%
Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc$30,00011%
Hyechka Club of Tulsa Inc$12,0004n/a
Tulsa Honors Orchestra Ltd$12,0004n/a
Animal Aid of Tulsa Inc$4,00040%
Tulsa Area United Way$3,00030%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Tulsa: $760,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc: $657,500 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetYWCA Tulsa Inc: $600,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetOklahoma City University: $562,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTulsa Opera Inc: $325,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetThe Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: $235,254 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTulsa Ballet Theatre Inc: $205,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $102,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Youth Symphony: $91,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetChildren's Museum of Nw Arkansas: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAnimal Aid of Tulsa Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTulsa Area United Way: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 13.

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.

Mervin Bovaird FoundationOK17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patti Johnson Wilson 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 Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation

How much does Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation give?
Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,763,542 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (31%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The University of Tulsa ($761k), Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ($658k), YWCA Tulsa Inc ($600k).
Does Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mervin Bovaird Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett.
Where is Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation based?
Patti Johnson Wilson 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 32 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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