· Private foundation
Sterling Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| BETHANY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER | $1,500 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA | $1,500 |
| TIPTON HOME | $1,000 |
| WESTVIEW BOYS HOME | $1,000 |
| FAITHWORKS OF THE INNER CITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI | $1,000 |
| THE CALL FOSTER & ADOPTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| SPARROW'S PROMISE | $1,000 |
| COLDWATER CHURCH OF CHRIST | $850 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CITY RESCUE MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +84%- TTTHE TIPTON HOME6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +10%
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- LCLATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INCone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +19%
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The Mantooth House is a Recovery Residence for Chemically Dependent adult women who have successfully completed primary treatment and are in early, but active recovery. We exist to provide quality recovery housing and bridge the gap…
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…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.
To inform the public the need for bridge family homes and identify families interested in adopting or fostering children of all races with special emphasis on African American children in state custody.
To build and operate transition houses to shelter, clothe, and feed orphans with the goal of reuniting them with their families. to support and teach families to care for each other.
The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.
Provide a home for children who have been abandoned and abused.
Rescue orphaned or abandoned children and provide them with food, shelter, clothing, medical, dental, education, recreation while teaching the word of christianity.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of the Inner City Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TIPTON HOME ↗
- Who funds WESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sterling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sterling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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