· Private foundation
Potts Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits | $140,000 |
| Legacy Parenting Center | $101,223 |
| Western Plains Youth Family Service | $87,586 |
| Delaware County Community Partnersh | $59,521 |
| LIFT Community Action Agency | $48,665 |
| Rural Health Projects Inc | $38,630 |
| Northern Oklahoma Youth Services | $37,143 |
| Oklahoma Institute for Child Advoca | $26,000 |
| Sunbeam Family Services | $25,000 |
| Community Resourcing Inc | $23,019 |
| Great Plains Youth Family Services | $21,000 |
| Community Action Project of Tulsa C | $10,000 |
| Veterans for Life USA | $1,000 |
| Okla Youth Hunting Shooting Program | $1,000 |
| Garfield County Child Advocacy Coun | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 88% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 7 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k 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
OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +214%
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +101%
WESTERN PLAINS YOUTH AND FAMILY INC2× · 2020–2024 · $89k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- BTBeyond the Spectrum Oklahomaone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HSHOPEHOUSE SUPPORTIVE & TRANSITIONAL LIVING INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +46%
- OWOklahoma Womens Coalition Incone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -99%
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.
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Our Mission is for all Oklahoma families to have access to quality care and education for their children through community-based resource and referral services; with a vision of Oklahoma communities supporting the development and learning…
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
Works to ensure that all children and youth in Oklahoma have access to safe and enriching learning opportunities during their out-of-school time.
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.
Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.
to provide a safe, child-friendly environment for abused children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Oklahoma City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 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. 58 of the 88 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 OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PLAINS YOUTH AND FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Youth & Family Service ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL HEALTH PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OKLA YOUTH SERVICES CENTER & SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCING INC dba OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD & RESOURCE CTR ↗
- Who funds Rose State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNION SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW FLEET INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds MILLWOOD ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEHOUSE SUPPORTIVE & TRANSITIONAL LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Arvest Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Wegener Foundation Inc · The Merrick Foundation
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 Potts Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Rural Health Projects Inc — 72% of income from government
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Tulsa Educare Inc — 46% of income from government
- Lift Community Action Agency Inc — 43% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Ki Bois Community Action Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Development Support Associatio — 2% of income from government
- El Sistema Oklahoma Inc — 2% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% 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.