· Private foundation
The Curry 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HUNGER FREE OKLAHOMA | $5,000 |
| RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 43 | $4,000 |
| TULSA CARES | $3,000 |
| KANSAS STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| PUBLIC RADIO OF TULSA | $2,500 |
| KSU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| SEWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS | $2,000 |
| LINDSEY HOUSE | $1,500 |
| CITY YEAR | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +78%
- RCResonance Center for Women Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +118%
HUNGER FREE OKLAHOMA INC4× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- HOHEALTH OUTREACH PREVENTION EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
- JJUSTHOPEORGone grant, 2019 · $3k
- HOHealth Outreach Prevention Education Incone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
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 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…
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
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.
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Demonstration School Pta. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 93 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Lawyers for Children 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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Sarkeys 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 Curry 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.
- Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Center for Housing Solutions Inc — 34% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% 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
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity 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.