· Private foundation
The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 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 $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $568k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
- $250k+1 grant · $9.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OU FOUNDATION | $9,009,180 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $57,975 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $48,260 |
| GLOBAL GARDENS | $45,000 |
| TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $41,500 |
| INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BSA | $36,250 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $31,034 |
| OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| MUDDY PAWS PETS HELPING PEOPLE | $20,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 97% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- FCFamily & Childrens Services Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +221%
DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE4× · 2018–2024 · $502k · revenue +1%- BDBozeman Deaconess Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $403k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- OUOKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- PPPARKSIDE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- TATULSA AREA CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k
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 tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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 provide a wide-range of affordable housing options for low and moderate income tulsans and to promote programs leading to self-sufficiency and home ownership.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
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.
To empower the american indian through exceptional healthcare.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
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.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Trinity legal clinic of oklahoma inc is an oklahoma not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to answer god's call to seek justice for the poor. in an effort to address the overwhelming need for legal assistance to the poor, trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 112 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 TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Fab Lab Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY 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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc
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 Charles & Peggy Stephenson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 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.