· Private foundation
Ruthanna B Snow Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULSA BOY'S HOME | $6,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| HISTORIC FORT RENO INC | $1,500 |
| OKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY | $1,250 |
| YUKON FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $1,200 |
| THE CHURCH OF GOD | $1,200 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 160 | $1,100 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| NPR | $1,000 |
| GUTS CHURCH INC | $1,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
| SWINGIN' D HORSE RESCUE | $1,000 |
| PBS | $1,000 |
| MAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS | $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, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
48 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
TULSA BOYS' HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +33%
Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +145%
CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +40%
Funded once
TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +44%- FFFoundation for Rational Economics and Education Incone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -6%
- ARACKCS RESCUE TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
Iron gate's mission is simple. we feed the hungry and homeless of tulsa, every day. we feed people in three ways, through our community meal, grocery pantry, and kids pantry.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Our mission is rooted in the belief that meaningful relationships restore communities. through relational service and dignified housing solutions, we work to help people move from surviving to thriving.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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 revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Five Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swingin' D Horse Rescue. 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 28 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 80 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 BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LAB RESCUE OK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG FIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR BUNKER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FORT RENO INC ↗
- Who funds YUKON MOBILE MEALS ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA SPOTLIGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Rational Economics and Education 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: George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee
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 Ruthanna B Snow Charitable 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.
- Big Five Community Services Inc — 75% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Theatre Tulsa Inc — 2% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.