· Private foundation
Ressa Foundation
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 $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD OKLMULGEE | $24,000 |
| MAINSPRINGS | $5,108 |
| TULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE | $300 |
| OKMULGEE COUNTY HISTORIC SOCIETY | $150 |
| LANDMARK FOR ALL GENERATIONS | $120 |
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 (FY19–22, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- PTPATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC2× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +135%
- TGTULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
Global Gardens Incorporated2× · 2021–2022 · $9k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +79%
- BFBAKER FAMILY EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTUREone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
Oklahoma indian legal services is dedicated to representation where federal indian, tribal and treaty law arise. oils is a nonprofit corporation primarily funded by the legal services corporation (lsc). establisehd in 1981, its purpose is…
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf Inc and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 81 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 PATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dancing Rabbit Music Association ↗
- Who funds TULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF OKLA ↗
- Who funds WILLS HOUSE LLC ↗
- Who funds TIM CASE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DanceSafe Inc ↗
- Who funds OKMULGEE COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK FOR ALL GENERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA POP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc
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 Ressa 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 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.
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