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The Hesed 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC | $10,000 |
| PARENT PROMISE | $10,000 |
| THE SAFE PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| EDEN VILLAGE OF TULSA | $7,500 |
| LETS FIX THIS INC | $5,000 |
| MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC | $5,000 |
| FIRST PEOPLES FUND | $4,000 |
| CORAL REEF ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| PERIOD OKC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BLOOMERANG HOMELESS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +107% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- ECEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +145%
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +107%- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OK3× · 2021–2023 · $6k
Funded once
- TCTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +339%
- MDMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCone grant, 2023 · $11k
- MHMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahomagraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +36%
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 promote the self-sufficiency of the socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged citizens of oklahoma and canadian counties and to eliminate the paradox of poverty among these citizens by opening to everyone the opportunity to…
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
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…
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
To address food insecurity mainly to the under-resourced east side community of tulsa.
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.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
To alleviate the causes of poverty by supporting oklahoma's community action agencies, which includes providing coordinated services, training and other assitance to member agencies.
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 Beauty 2 the Streetz. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN VILLAGE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds LETS FIX THIS ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds PERIOD OKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Beauty 2 The Streetz ↗
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: George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · St John Medical Center Inc · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Feed the Children Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 Hesed 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% 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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