· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $316k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA INC | $15,000 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $10,000 |
| EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| TULSA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM INC | $10,000 |
| TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MCINTOSH COUNTY YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| BRIDGES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC | $10,000 |
| 501 TECHNET | $10,000 |
| STAND IN THE GAP | $8,000 |
| HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY | $7,500 |
| OKLAHOMA CARING FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $597k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +60%
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +15%
TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +1%
- 9V9 VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2018 · $21k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLAHone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
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 revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Poverty alleviation/homelessness prevention
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Kipp tulsa prepares students from educationally under-served neighborhoods in tulsa, ok with the academic, character and life skills necessary for success in college and the competitive world beyond.
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 Launch Outreach. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
150 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. 150 of the 243 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR BUNKER INC ↗
- Who funds OKMULGEE COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Caring Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Joy in the Cause Company ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Pets Helping People Inc ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Tulsa 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 · 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
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 Gelvin 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.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Ability Resources Inc — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% 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
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Theatre Tulsa Inc — 2% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 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.