· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Silas Foundation Co Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silas Foundation Co Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
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