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Sarkeys Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k82 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME INTEGRATION INC | $250,000 |
| CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC | $228,000 |
| DEAN A MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| GATEWAY TO PREVENTION AND RECOVERY | $125,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OU HEALTH (DBA OF OU MEDICINE INC) | $125,000 |
| OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $105,000 |
| GRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC (DBA GRAND MENTAL HEALTH) | $100,000 |
| THE GENESIS PROJECT | $100,000 |
| THE SPRING SHELTER INC | $75,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA | $75,000 |
| SISU YOUTH INC | $62,500 |
| HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC | $62,500 |
| EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $62,500 |
| SPECIAL CARE INC | $62,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 93% 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 +15% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 47 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CCCare Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc DBA The CARE Center4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +3%
The University of Tulsa4× · 2021–2024 · $526k · revenue +6%
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $406k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- OSOklahoma State University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +43%
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -43%
COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMAone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -12%
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.
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.
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…
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
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.
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.
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.
Crisis intervention services and full shelter for victims and their children of domestic violence/sexual assault. Advocates for abused children in the court system.
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…
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Five Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texoma Autism and Behavior Intervention School. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
234 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. 234 of the 272 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HOME INTEGRATION INC ↗
- Who funds Care Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc DBA The CARE Center ↗
- Who funds CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO PREVENTION & RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds SISU YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Norman Alcohol Information Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROUND ZERO EMERGENCY TRAINING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARY ABBOTT CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Center of Family Love ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Dragonfly Home Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEHOUSE SUPPORTIVE & TRANSITIONAL LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES 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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Love Meyer Family 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 Sarkeys 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.
- Crossroads Youth & Family Services Inc — 78% of income from government
- Big Five Community Services Inc — 75% of income from government
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Oklahoma County Diversion Hub Inc — 51% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Northwest Domestic Crisis Services — 11% of income from government
- Thunderbird Clubhouse Board Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Food and Shelter Inc — 6% of income from government
- Gateway to Prevention & Recovery — 6% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Crisis Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
- Special Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity 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.