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Tall Oak Midstream Foundation at a glance

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Tall Oak Midstream Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$130k
Granted FY2017
16
Grants FY2017
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k11 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
$6,375
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY$20,088
YOUR GRATEFUL NATION$20,000
ALLIED ARTS$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA$15,000
POSITIVE TOMORROWS$14,125
GVCF$8,250
UCO FOUNDATION$8,000
JOHN ROSS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$6,375
BAKER RIPLEY$5,000
SLATER VALLEY RANCH$5,000
EDMOND MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES$3,000
CENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY$1,750
EDMOND NORTH HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
PROJECT 66$1,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAKER RIPLEY: $5k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%PROJECT 66: $1k → 16%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.
03Its 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
Sunflower Elementary Pto

Parent teacher organization

Education
2
Rainbow Fleet Inc

To provide innovative educational child care development programs and services that enhance the quality of life for children, their families and child care professionals.

Education
3
Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation Inc

We are the leading advocate for okcps. we strengthen our schools through community investment, strategic partnerships, and innovative programs.

Education
4
The Verge Entrepreneurship Hub Foundation
Community Improvement
5
It's My Community Initiative Inc

To strengthen communities by building strong, healthy families.

Social Science
6
Pta Oklahoma Congress Dba Council Oak Elementary Pta

To support and enrich council oak elementary school

Education
7
Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Foundation Inc

To improve school readiness outcomes in oklahoma.

Education
8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Human Services
9
Futuro Brillante
International
10
Fuel Okc Inc

Fuel okc's mission is to increase the number of quality schools serving residents of oklahoma city.

Education
11
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Greater Opportunities of the Permian Basin Inc

To provide a positive learning experience in a safe and healthy environment that will improve the quality of life for the children, service, and empower them to become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mc Everglow Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY: $20,088 · OtherUNITED WAYGVCF: $8,250 · OtherGVCFUCO FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherUCO FOUNDATIONEDMOND MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherEDMOND MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLEDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,500 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitSPECIAL OPERATORS…POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $14,125 · Youth DevelopmentPOSITIVE TOMORRO…MC EVERGLOW FUND INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMC EVERGLOW FUND…ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED ARTS O…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC: $15,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEV…BakerRipley: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 66 INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJOHN ROSS ELEMENTARY PTO: $6,375 · PhilanthropyCENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY PTO INC: $1,750 · Education
Other$43,338Public Benefit$20,000Youth Development$19,125Arts & Culture$15,000International$15,000Human Services$9,000Philanthropy$6,375Education$1,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $14,125 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOHN ROSS ELEMENTARY PTO: $6,375 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMC EVERGLOW FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBakerRipley: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 66 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Oklahoma City Communi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Tall Oak Midstream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tall Oak Midstream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Sunbeam Family Services Inc: 63% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Tall Oak Midstream Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tall Oak Midstream Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2018) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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