· Private foundation
The Forbes 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION | $5,800 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW | $2,500 |
| ASCENSION ST JOHN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS-TULSA | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF TULSA | $700 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-TULSA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS-TULSA AREA CHAPTER | $500 |
| UP WITH TREES | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $500 |
| IRON GATE | $250 |
| ZETA PSI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +66%
IRON GATE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +66%- ZPZETA PSI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- JCJENKS COMMUNITY EDUCATION JENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
To extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
The family safety center exists to promote safety and justice in tulsa county through co-located multi-disciplinary services that offer protection, hope and healing to victims of intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault,…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.
To provide food and essential resources to low-income individuals and families across southwest oklahoma through emergency and supplemental programs, mobile and collaborative distributions, and strong community partnerships while upholding…
Provides financial support, scholarships, and encouragement to low-income single parents pursuing postsecondary education. By helping them stay in school and complete degrees, the program empowers families to achieve self-sufficiency,…
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
The Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives is a statewide association created in 1942 and voluntarily supported by Oklahoma's non-profit electric cooperatives for the purpose to collectively perform services which would not be…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds UP WITH TREES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA PSI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Catholic Education ↗
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 · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Forbes 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
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% 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.