· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 RED CROSS-TULSA AREA CHAPTER | $500 |
| UP WITH TREES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION-TULSA | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $500 |
| ZETA PSI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $250 |
| FRIENDS OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION | $250 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Forbes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forbes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: 1% of income from government
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