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The Oxley Foundation at a glance

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The Oxley Foundation

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$10MEducation$8.1MAnimals$3.6MHealth$1.8MHuman Services$580kArts & Culture$577kYouth Development$151kRecreation & Sports$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$23,222
Median grant
1
States reached
$899k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAUSE4PAWS$23,222
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $25k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RESONANCE - CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $3k → 15%RESONANCE - CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $3k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $5k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $3k → 15%TULSA BOYS' HOME: $3k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $2k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 53 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
39

Total granted

$11M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

66%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Tulsa
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3.8M · revenue +16%
  • TZ
    TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3.5M · revenue +57%
  • WR
    Will Rogers Memorial Foundation
    3× · 2020–2023 · $510k · revenue +432%

Funded once

  • TC
    TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3.5M · revenue -115%
  • HH
    HOLLAND HALL
    one grant, 2024 · $750k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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2
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc

To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.

Arts & Culture
3
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
4
Tulsa Spca

The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.

Animals
5
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
6
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

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.

Education
7
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
8
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture
9
Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights
10
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

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…

Environment
11
Ywca Tulsa Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
12
Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc

Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Yot Full Circle Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
40/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- DONOR ADVISED FUND: $10,103,146 · OtherTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- DONOR ADVISED FUNDMAYO CLINIC: $1,575,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICHOLLAND HALL: $750,000 · OtherHOLLAND HALL+52 more: $886,481 · Other+52 moreThe University of Tulsa: $3,800,000 · EducationThe University of TulsaUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATIO…+4 more: $23,000 · EducationTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC: $3,518,000 · AnimalsTULSA ZOO MANAG…+1 more: $25,000 · AnimalsWill Rogers Memorial Foundation: $510,000 · PhilanthropyYOT FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $28,358 · PhilanthropyMARY K OXLEY FOUNDATION: $28,358 · Philanthropy+3 more: $22,500 · PhilanthropyLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $319,000 · Human ServicesClarehouse Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $20,000 · Human Services+9 more: $84,750 · Human ServicesNational Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 · Arts & CultureARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $30,000 · HealthPAUSE4PAWS INC: $27,222 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 · HealthHONOR BUNKER INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$13,314,627Education$7,323,000Animals$3,543,000Philanthropy$589,216Human Services$443,750Arts & Culture$147,500Health$94,722

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Tulsa: $3,800,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC: $3,518,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWill Rogers Memorial Foundation: $510,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $319,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNational Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNEW LIFE RANCH INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Garden Center: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOT FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $28,358 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARY K OXLEY FOUNDATION: $28,358 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPAUSE4PAWS INC: $27,222 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClarehouse Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Community College Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT SIMEON'S EPISCOPAL HOME FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMary K Oxley Nature Center: $10,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC: $9,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA INC: $9,240 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFANNIN COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR BUNKER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Hardesty Family F…The Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationMervin Bovaird Founda…Ralph and Frances McG…Tulsa Community Found…Grace & Franklin Bern…One Gas Foundation IncThe Sharna and Irvin …Oneok Foundation IncMaxine and Jack Zarro…George Kaiser Family …
The Hardesty Family Foundation IncOK83.9× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Oxley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oxley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% 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 University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Oxley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Oxley Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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