· Private foundation
Poe Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $90,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC | $20,000 |
| SAINT SIMEON'S EPISCOPAL HOME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TULSA BALLET THEATER INC | $6,000 |
| TULSA OPERA INC | $5,500 |
| TULSA BOYS HOME INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC | $2,500 |
| BALLET PENSACOLA | $2,500 |
| CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF TULSA HISTORY | $1,500 |
| TOWN & COUNTRY SCHOOL | $500 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TULSA | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +71%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%
TULSA OPERA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TATULSA AREA AMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $10k
TULSA AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%- TCTreasure Cay Community Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -52%
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 prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
To promote ethical conduct among attorneys, to advance the effective administration of our judicial system, to ensure equal access to justice for all citizens and to engender respect for the legal profession, the law and the governing…
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Financial support of Town Hall of Tulsa Corporation
Theatre tulsa provided theatre education programming throughout the fiscal year serving 125 students. the education program included 3 staged youth shows.
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.
To preserve the places where Oklahoma history lives.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
Organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, specifically for the sole benefit of Tulsa Press Club Benevolent Association, Inc. to aid in carrying out the mission to promote the highest standards of journalism and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Presbyterian Church Foundation of Bartlesville Oklahom. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT SIMEON'S EPISCOPAL HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOM ↗
- Who funds Treasure Cay Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET PENSACOLA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett
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 Poe Family 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 Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% 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.