· Private foundation
Silas Foundation Co Trust
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of Silas Foundation Co Trust’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Silas Foundation Co Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $59k. It is dated, not current.
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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| BARTLESVILLE REGIONAL UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATRE | $2,000 |
| OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| CHEROKEE AREA BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| Westside Community Center | $300 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your 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 +42% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- OAOKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +42%
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +20%- CACHEROKEE AREA BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA2× · 2017–2018 · $1k
Funded once
- PTPRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -219%
- BRBARTLESVILLE REGIONAL UNITED WAY INone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +0%
- BSBARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +39%
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.
Our mission is to provide quality art education and exhibitions that nurture creativity, acquisition of artistic skills, and aesthetic appreciation of art. Our outstanding programs build communtiy through access, engagement, excellence and…
Our mission is to serve the community through education, skill development and promotion of the visual arts.
Okc ballet promotes the art of dance by supporting a professional company and its productions, operating a school of ballet for dance artists, children, and novice adults, and providing community engagement activities.
To provide opportunities for children and teens to experience the performing arts through programs offered at their local schools and in their community.
Community based lessons and classes for children and adults in music and the arts.
to promote the arts by providing opportunities for artistic expression, education & enjoyment in Batesville and the surrounding area
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
To promote the arts, play a pivotal role in the cultural and economic advancement of the region, and inspire the community to engage in appreciation of arts and music at all levels.
To restore and preserve the state theater building.
The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are to foster international exchange of arts and culture via traveling exhibitions and events; and to curate art exhibitions in the public shere both nationally and…
Promotion and advancement of the arts including fostering of the public's interest in the arts and the development of artists and display of their art works of all types. formation and operation of an orchestra and a chorus to provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bartlesville Regional United Way in and the most unlike its peers is Westside Community Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE REGIONAL UNITED WAY IN ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLESVILLE CIVIC BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Bartlesville Community Foundation · K S Adams Foundation Co-Trust · Lyon Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Silas Foundation Co Trust 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.
- Oklahoma Arts Institute 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.