· Private foundation
The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $1,260,000 |
| TULSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $557,000 |
| THE SPRING SHELTER INC | $500,000 |
| OU FOUNDATION | $475,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES LTD | $350,000 |
| HOLLAND HALL SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| MONTE CASSINO SCHOOL INC | $250,000 |
| RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN | $200,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $195,600 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA | $182,500 |
| ST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $156,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $153,000 |
| A NEW LEAF | $101,500 |
| 36 DEGREES NORTH CO (DBA GRADIENT) | $100,000 |
| GREEN COUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +2% for the ones you funded once.
156 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $981k 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
The University of Tulsa4× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +8%- OSOklahoma State University Foundation4× · 2021–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +43%
- MHMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma7× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +177%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MANSION INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -79%
- TCThe Children's Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +161%
- AHARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA DBA AHHA TULSAone grant, 2018 · $74k
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
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.
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.
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.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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 Bristow Barnyard Farm and Domestic Animal Rescue. 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 287 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 The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds USA BMX Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SAFETY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Fab Lab Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds 12 & 12 INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds HBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women 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 · The Gelvin Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Oneok Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Morningcrest Healthcare 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 Hardesty Family Foundation Inc 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
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% 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 Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Tulsa 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.
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