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The Austin Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$378k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$101k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$733kArts & Culture$284kEducation$156kFood & Nutrition$123kPhilanthropy$96kHuman Services$60kRecreation & Sports$50kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
$11,460
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
MUSEUM OF TULSA HISTORY$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY CARE OK: $30k → 16%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $5k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $2k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$1.3M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
0%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HR
    HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES
    7× · 2018–2025 · $163k · revenue +147%
  • TB
    TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +73%
  • OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • VC
    VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY
    one grant, 2021 · $63k
  • TJ
    TOGETHER JUST
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • CC
    CITY CARE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
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
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
2
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
3
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.

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4
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Ywca Tulsa Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
6
United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc

United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.

Philanthropy
7
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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9
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

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…

Environment
11
The Arc of Oklahoma Inc

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,…

Human Services
12
Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Development of Tulsa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 41 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TULSA: $135,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TULSAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $76,975 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONVARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $62,998 · OtherVARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITYSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,500 · OtherSIGMA ALPHA EPSILON NATIONAL FOUNDATIONTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $45,000 · OtherTULSA AREA UNITED WAYWESTERN TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · OtherWESTERN TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCTOGETHER JUST: $40,000 · OtherTOGETHER JUSTPHILBROOK MUSEUM: $39,329 · OtherPHILBROOK MUSEUMCITY CARE INC: $30,000 · OtherTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $25,000 · Other+18 more: $90,724 · Other+18 moreHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES: $163,400 · HealthHIV Resource Consortium Inc d…OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC: $128,080 · HealthOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INCTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $108,455 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WI…TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $161,123 · Arts & CultureTULSA BALLET …THE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION: $16,900 · Arts & CultureTHE CHURCH ST…CIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $113,300 · Food & NutritionFood on the Move Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOklahoma State University Foundation: $95,100 · EducationSpecial Olympics Oklahoma Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsOLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Catholic Education: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$630,526Health$399,935Arts & Culture$188,023Food & Nutrition$118,300Education$95,100Recreation & Sports$65,000Philanthropy$60,000

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 budgetHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES: $163,400 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $161,123 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC: $128,080 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $113,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $108,455 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $95,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oklahoma Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCITY CARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION: $16,900 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT OF TULSA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFood on the Move Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $1,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Hardesty Family F…Ralph and Frances McG…The Anne and Henry Za…Tulsa Community Found…The Sharna and Irvin …One Gas Foundation IncGeorge Kaiser Family …Grace & Franklin Bern…Mervin Bovaird Founda…Sarkeys FoundationMorningcrest Healthca…Sanford P & Irene F B…
The Hardesty Family Foundation IncOK32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Austin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Austin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Youth Services of Tulsa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 41 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.

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