· Private foundation
Patti Johnson Wilson 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, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YWCA TULSA | $200,000 |
| TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $185,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $140,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $131,042 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| TULSA OPERA INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +45% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 32 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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patti Johnson Wilson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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