· Private foundation
The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TULSA ARTS MANAGEMENT CONSORTIUM INC | $275,000 |
| TULSA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $64,500 |
| TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN | $30,000 |
| TULSA OPERA | $27,000 |
| TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| CLAREHOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CHURCH STUDIOS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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 +54% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TTTHE TULSA ARTS MANAGEMENT CONSORTIUM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +150% · 91% of their budget
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +15%- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- AHARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -98%
- GMGILCREASE MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $13k
CHAMBER MUSIC TULSAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +107%
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.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Theatre tulsa provided theatre education programming throughout the fiscal year serving 125 students. the education program included 3 staged youth shows.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
To support, promote, and improve the programs and services of the oklahoma arts institute.
The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.
Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.
Tulsa International Mayfest is dedicated to the promotion of knowledge and education of the arts and humanities throughout the Tulsa community.
The mission of The Sooner Theatre is to change lives, offer diverse perspectives and create a cultural connection to the community through the performing arts and arts education.
The mission of tulsa historical society & museum is to illuminate the past, enrich the present, and inspire future generations by collecting, preserving, and presenting tulsa's history.
The mission of the organization is to encourage growth in the cultural climate of oklahoma through the production of classical theatrical productions in unique venues at a reasonable admission price.
To promote German and European culture through festivals.
Promoting public awareness and support for the arts through our mission of bringing the arts and community together. Our free and low-cost events and programs reach nearly one million people annually.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Inc and the most unlike its peers is German-American Society Arts Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 THE TULSA ARTS MANAGEMENT CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds RED DIRT RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ARTS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY ARTS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC TULSA ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF STARLIGHT CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds Fab Lab Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project Tulsa ↗
- Who funds TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett · Flint Family Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Sharna and Irvin Frank 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 The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Inc 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.
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- 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.
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