· Private foundation
The Oven Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN AND COUNTRY SCHOOL | $1,200 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES TULSA | $250 |
| THE NORMAN PS FOUNDATION | $200 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OK | $200 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $100 |
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 (FY23–23, $200) 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Town & Country School Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +31%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +39%- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2020–2025 · $800
Funded once
- GMGILCREASE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $3k
- OCOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TULSAone grant, 2024 · $250
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.
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
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.
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools was established to build a stronger community through the support of Tulsa Public Schools.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 34 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 The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · John and Donnie Brock Foundation · Broadhurst Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Coretz Family Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Oven Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oven Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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