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The Cole Family Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA METHODIST MANOR | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $500 |
| LIFE SENIOR SERVICES | $350 |
| TULSA DAY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $350 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NE OKLAHOMA | $350 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF METRO TULSA | $250 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA | $250 |
| ANIMAL AID OF TULSA | $250 |
| TULSA SPCA | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| CLAREHOUSE | $100 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $100 |
| UP WITH TREES | $100 |
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 (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TWTRINITY WOODS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +27%
The University of Tulsa2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +16%
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $600 · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TBTULSA BOTANIC GARDENSone grant, 2020 · $250
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 area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Animal rescue foundation inc (arf) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. we do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
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…
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.
To serve as horticultural headquarters with diverse educational opportunities for our community, and to provide exceptional and unique guest experiences in Woodward Park
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The Mission Statement for the Okmulgee County Humane Society is to enrich the lives of dogs and cats and provide support to the people who love them when in need - strengthen the overall human-animal bond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Day Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 TRINITY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds Tulsa SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UP WITH TREES INC ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Waters Charitable Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · The Gelvin Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen 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 Cole 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.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% 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.
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