· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| MUDDY PAWS PETS HELPING PEOPLE | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 97%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 112 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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