Skip to content
Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$40kCrime & Legal$32kPublic Benefit$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHousing & Shelter$9kReligion$9kPhilanthropy$6kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$116k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DEMAND PROJECT$25,000
NOON DAY MINISTRIES$10,000
BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS$5,000
FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$1,274
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $5k → 15%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $213 → 15%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $178 → 15%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $129 → 15%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $93 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 8 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$120k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

63%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TD
    THE DEMAND PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +24%
  • SW
    Soldier's Wish
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +86%
  • TF
    TULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TE
    TACTICAL ELECTRONICS FOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $26k
  • TS
    The Scripps Howard Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +79%
  • HH
    Heroes Hope Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation

To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.

—
3
Ok Foundation

Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.

Philanthropy
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

—
5
Northwest Oklahoma Blood Institute
—
6
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
7
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Central Oklahoma Chapter
Civil Rights
8
Oklahoma State Troopers Foundation Inc

The mission of the Oklahoma State Troopers Foundation "OSTF" is to assist in fulfilling needs of Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troopers and their families as well as the organization by providing grants and/or funds for:Financial SupportFamily &…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Operation Healing Heros Foundation Nfp

Documenting the lives of our military veterans

Human Services
10
Valor Ranch

Empowering our Nation's SHEROES "Women Veterans" to continue to write their story. The primary goal of Valor Ranch is to reintegrate female veterans (SHEROES) back into the civilian world by providing them with a safe place to heal while…

Public Benefit
11
Operation Adopt a Soldier Inc

To raise and maintain awareness to the american people of the day to day sacrifices that our military men and women and their families make to protect our freedoms. to make comfortable and bring a sense of home to our soldiers and to…

Public Benefit
12
Operation Adopt a Soldier

Helping wounded soldiers

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Folds of Honor Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TACTICAL ELECTRONICS FOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,267 · OtherTACTICAL ELECTRONICS FOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNOON DAY MINISTRIES: $10,000 · OtherNOON DAY MINISTRIESBETHANY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH: $9,000 · OtherBETHANY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCHHEROES HEALING HOMESTEAD INC: $5,000 · OtherHEROES HEALING HOMESTEAD INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,010 · Other+9 more: $8,180 · Other+9 moreTHE DEMAND PROJECT INC: $55,000 · Crime & LegalTHE DEMAND PROJECT INC+2 more: $541 · Crime & LegalSoldier's Wish: $17,521 · Public BenefitSoldier's WishEAGLE OPS FOUNDATION: $5,994 · Public BenefitEAGLE OPS FOUNDA…Heroes Hope Inc: $5,000 · Public BenefitHeroes Hope Inc+1 more: $76 · Public BenefitTULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA FIR…The Scripps Howard Foundation: $6,000 · PhilanthropyThe Scrip…BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $5,613 · Human ServicesFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOKLAHOMA FIREFIGHTERS BURN CAMP INC: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,274 · Education
Other$78,457Crime & Legal$55,541Public Benefit$28,591Philanthropy$16,000Human Services$5,613Food & Nutrition$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Education$1,274

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DEMAND PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSoldier's Wish: $17,521 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Scripps Howard Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE OPS FOUNDATION: $5,994 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $5,613 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA FIREFIGHTERS BURN CAMP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,274 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $479 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $76 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $62 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Tulsa Community Found…The Anne and Henry Za…Hern Family FoundationGrace & Franklin Bern…One Gas Foundation IncNetwork for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tulsa Community FoundationOK18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Hern Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Tactical Electronics for Community Engagement’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home