· Private foundation
Scott and Vanessa Thompson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Scott and Vanessa Thompson Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund | $1,400,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass | $50,000 |
| Stephen F Austin State University | $15,000 |
| Mental Health Association Oklahoma | $10,000 |
| Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance | $10,000 |
| Monte Cassino School | $6,848 |
| Domestic Violence Intervention Services INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CLAREHOUSE | $2,310 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| TULSA GARDEN CENTER | $669 |
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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- MHMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma3× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +76%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
- CBCommunity Bible Study3× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BCBLUE CROSS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- UWUnited Way Tulsa Areaone grant, 2023 · $26k
THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +158%
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Supporting organization for the parent child center of tulsa providing services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Transforming our Tulsa community by providing a high quality, convenient, and affordable bicycle transit system that connects people to places where they live, work, and play.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
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.…
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.
In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Knock Out Abuse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHARITY FIGHT NIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAKE MANDEVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KNOCK OUT ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Garden Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY WORK SPACE ↗
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 Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · A R and Marylouise Tandy Foundation · Zink Family Foundation · The Cuesta Foundation Inc · The Oxley Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Maxine and Jack Zarrow 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 Scott and Vanessa Thompson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% 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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