Oklahoma · Private foundation
The Gelvin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $431k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 106
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Gelvin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 76 | $431k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $467k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $521k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $418k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $428k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 106 | $414k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 88 | $413k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 89 | $385k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network | $80,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $74,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc | $70,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Salvation Army | $60,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hospice of Green Country Inc | $55,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Honor Bunker Inc | $54,500 | 7 | 6% |
| Okmulgee County Homeless Shelter Inc | $54,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Tulsa Opera Inc | $49,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Stand in the Gap Inc | $49,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Emergency Infant Services Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 157 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($824k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gelvin Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Gelvin Foundation
- How much does The Gelvin Foundation give?
- The Gelvin Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $430,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 106 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Gelvin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Gelvin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ($81k), Tulsa Area United Way ($74k), Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc ($71k).
- Does The Gelvin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gelvin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gelvin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation, Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma.
- Where is The Gelvin Foundation based?
- The Gelvin Foundation is based in OK.
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