· Private foundation
The Grace Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $7k
- $250k+1 grant · $619k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULSA BOTANIC GARDENS | $619,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA | $1,000 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $1,000 |
| TULSA GIRLS' ART SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRY - FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TULSA TOWN HALL | $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 (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TBTULSA BOTANIC GARDENS3× · 2021–2023 · $651k
- THTHE HARVEST3× · 2017–2021 · $20k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY2× · 2020–2021 · $12k
Funded once
TULSA AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +69%
THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +70%
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.
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 improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
111Tulsa exists to mobilize the local church to see that no child is without a family in Tulsa County.
Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.
Possibilities values-driven transformative experiences train diverse people in methods of community engagement to lead, innovate, and facilitate change. in short, possibilities grows local capacity to work for positive change. the building…
The Good OKC was created to equip and empower the people of OKC to experience the Kingdom of God in the everyday lives. Far too often we seperate our spiritual lives from our actual life. We believe following Jesus is a 24/7 endeavor and…
To strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another, and to promote democracy, human rights, and freedom in our association.
Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors Along the Line and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds PETRA KIDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Town Hall of Tulsa Corp ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN 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: Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Atkinson Family Foundation Inc · Broadhurst Foundation · The HA & Mary K Chapman Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare 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 Grace 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.
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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