· Private foundation
The Gerald H Westby Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,350 |
| TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN | $5,000 |
| TULSA OPERA | $5,000 |
| TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| TULSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,850 |
| OKLAHOMA HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA | $2,000 |
| SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER | $1,000 |
| BLESSINGS TO SHARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $24k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +11%
TULSA OPERA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +44%
YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UCURBAN CORE ART PROJECT-ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $30k
LEADERSHIP TULSA INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +3%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +54%
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 prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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 provide a theatrical, educational broadway level experience for the youth and audiences of tulsa, oklahoma.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
The mission of tulsa historical society & museum is to illuminate the past, enrich the present, and inspire future generations by collecting, preserving, and presenting tulsa's history.
Organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, specifically for the sole benefit of Tulsa Press Club Benevolent Association, Inc. to aid in carrying out the mission to promote the highest standards of journalism and to…
Not-for-profit organization formed for the purpose of holding a master license agreement and providing technical support for Tessitura software, a ticketing and development program. The software is currently used by member charitable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Opera Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sapulpa Furry Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds SAPULPA FURRY FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA FIDUCIARY FUND ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds RED DIRT RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA POP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TULSA YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Soldier's Wish ↗
- Who funds Gatesway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS TO SHARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC TULSA ↗
- Who funds GROVE COMMUNITY PLAYMAKERS 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 · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett
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 Gerald H Westby Jr 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.
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc — 91% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Theatre Tulsa Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 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.
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