· Private foundation
The Austin 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $100,800 |
| TULSA CARES | $77,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OKLAHOMA | $50,000 |
| TULSA BALLET | $36,500 |
| OSU FOUNDATION | $22,900 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC | $15,000 |
| OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMEN | $11,460 |
| FRIENDS OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION ENDOWMENT TRUST | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF TULSA HISTORY | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| TULSA BOYS' HOME | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES | $2,500 |
| FIRST TEE OF TULSA | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- HRHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES7× · 2018–2025 · $163k · revenue +147%
- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +73%
OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- VCVARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITYone grant, 2021 · $63k
- TJTOGETHER JUSTone grant, 2024 · $40k
- CCCITY CARE INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
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 improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
The Arc of Oklahoma, Inc. promotes and protects the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and supports their full participation in the community throughout their lifetime. We aim to educate,…
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Development of Tulsa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Olivia Bloomfield Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 41 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 HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER JUST ↗
- Who funds CITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Catholic Education ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF 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 Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee
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 Austin Family Foundation 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.
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City 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.