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Poe Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$354kArts & Culture$297kPhilanthropy$35kReligion$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$5kHealth$4kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION INC$2,500
FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC$2,500
BALLET PENSACOLA$2,500
MUSEUM OF TULSA HISTORY$1,500
TOWN & COUNTRY SCHOOL$500
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TULSA$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TULSA BOYS HOME: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$672k · 13 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$672k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+22%

Still filing today

69%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +71%
  • THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%
  • TULSA OPERA INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TC
    Treasure Cay Community Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -52%
  • TA
    TULSA AREA AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TULSA AREA UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
2
Tulsa Community Loan Fund Inc

To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.

Housing & Shelter
3
Tulsa County Bar Foundation Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Tulsa Spca

The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.

Animals
5
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

—
6
Tulsa Town Hall Endowment Inc

Financial support of Town Hall of Tulsa Corporation

Community Improvement
7
Theatre Tulsa Inc

Theatre tulsa provided theatre education programming throughout the fiscal year serving 125 students. the education program included 3 staged youth shows.

Arts & Culture
8
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

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.

Education
9
Preservation Oklahoma Inc

To preserve the places where Oklahoma history lives.

—
10
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
11
Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust

Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.

—
12
Tulsa Press Club Foundation Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $319,400 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+15 more: $48,700 · Other+15 moreTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $23,500 · Arts & CultureTULSA BALLET THEATRE INCTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INCTULSA OPERA INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $16,750 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $33,500 · Human ServicesSAINT SIMEON'S EPISCOPAL HOME FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTreasure Cay Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50 · PhilanthropyFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOM: $10,000 · ReligionTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC: $2,500 · HealthJunior League of Tulsa Inc: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$368,100Arts & Culture$285,250Human Services$33,500Philanthropy$25,050Religion$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Health$2,500Community Improvement$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $210,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $33,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT SIMEON'S EPISCOPAL HOME FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA OPERA INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTreasure Cay Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOM: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM INC: $3,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET PENSACOLA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJunior League of Tulsa Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationThe Hardesty Family F…Mervin Bovaird Founda…Maxine and Jack Zarro…The Sharna and Irvin …Tulsa Community Found…Kathleen Patton Westb…Flint Family Foundati…Grace & Franklin Bern…Ralph and Frances McG…The Barnett Family Fo…
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Poe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Poe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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