· Private foundation
The Ben and Bonnie Walkingstick Foundati
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHOSEN HOUSE | $124,950 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $48,750 |
| CHANDLER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST AUTHORITY | $27,524 |
| OU FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| WILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH | $7,000 |
| OTHER | $3,271 |
| JEREMIAH HOUSE INC | $2,500 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND OTHER | $2,300 |
| SSC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DUCK'S UNLIMITED | $2,000 |
| CHANDLER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,300 |
| CHANDLER ROTARY CLUB | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COWBOY MUSEUM | $375 |
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 (FY17–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- WSWILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH INC7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +20%
- CCCHANDLER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE6× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +53%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- WWWILLIAM WALLACE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -15% · 52% of their budget
- GAGOD AND PEOPLES FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- OSOKLAHOMA SPORTMANS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Unite donor passions with university priorities to elevate the impact of oklahoma state university.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is William Wallace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
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 57 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 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WALLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jeremiah House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE TO LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Presbyterian Health Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ben and Bonnie Walkingstick Foundati 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.