Oklahoma · 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.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Poe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $154k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $96k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $107k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $94k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $225k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $19k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $319,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Tulsa Children's Museum Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Tulsa Boys' Home Inc | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc | $23,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Simeon's Episcopal Home Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tulsa Opera Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Treasure Cay Community Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| First Presbyterian Church Foundation of Bartlesville Oklahom | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $319,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Tulsa Children's Museum Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Tulsa Boys' Home Inc | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc | $23,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Simeon's Episcopal Home Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tulsa Opera Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Treasure Cay Community Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| First Presbyterian Church Foundation of Bartlesville Oklahom | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of American Song Archives Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum Inc | $3,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Circle Cinema Foundation | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Oklahoma Project Woman Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ballet Pensacola Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tulsa Historical Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Town & Country School Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Junior League of Tulsa Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Poe Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Poe Family Foundation
- How much does Poe Family Foundation give?
- Poe Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $154,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Poe Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Arts & Culture (41%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Poe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($319k), Tulsa Children's Museum Inc ($210k), Tulsa Boys' Home Inc ($34k).
- Does Poe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Poe Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Poe Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation, The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Poe Family Foundation based?
- Poe Family Foundation is based in OK.
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