· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRY - FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TULSA GIRLS' ART SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $1,000 |
| TULSA TOWN HALL | $500 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 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 PETRA KIDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Town Hall of Tulsa Corp ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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