· Private foundation
The David E & Cassie L Temple Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $705k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| TULSA LIBRARY TRUST | $50,000 |
| TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSIST NETWORK | $40,000 |
| STAND IN THE GAP | $40,000 |
| HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $35,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| FAMILY SAFETY CENTER | $30,000 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $25,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA | $25,000 |
| FLUORISH HOMES | $25,000 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $25,000 |
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, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
72 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- ORORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +58%
- BABOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +3%
STAND IN THE GAP INC8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVone grant, 2017 · $26k
Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans Unitedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +11%- SISPRINGS INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +4%
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.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
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.
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.
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.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.
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…
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
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 Akdar Temple Shriners. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 90 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 ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP LOUGHRIDGE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SAFETY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds Eagle Point Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds GO LIFE MOBILE MEDICAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL 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 · Tulsa Community Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Hille Family Charitable 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 David E & Cassie L Temple 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% 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
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% 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.