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The Robert and Sandra Norman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Robert and Sandra Norman Family 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$157kPhilanthropy$55kArts & Culture$18kHealth$10kHuman Services$9kEnvironment$9kFood & Nutrition$3kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$422k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN$1,250
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 (FY20–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $2k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $3k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $1k → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 10 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$182k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+6%

Still filing today

70%
64%

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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • TULSA AREA UNITED WAY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +207%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • The University of Tulsa
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • AF
    ATU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • AT
    ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -63%
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
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

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

Employment
3
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
4
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc

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

Arts & Culture
5
University of Toledo Alumni Association

Supporting the university of toledo by fostering a spirit of loyalty among its alumni.

Education
6
Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation

We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. may all who leave here know the impact of violence. may this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.

Arts & Culture
7
Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc

Honoring the past, inspiring the future.

Arts & Culture
8
Oklahoma Association of Realtors

The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…

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9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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10
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
11
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Tulsa; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT: $100,300 · OtherARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENTTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $30,000 · OtherTULSA AREA UNITED WAYATU FOUNDATION: $25,250 · OtherATU FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA CHAPTER: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA CHAPTERTULSA BOTANIC GARDEN: $8,100 · Other+6 more: $4,975 · OtherThe University of Tulsa: $30,000 · EducationThe University of TulsaARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSIT…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesResonance Center for Women Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $3,250 · Food & NutritionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,923 · Religion
Other$178,625Education$56,000Arts & Culture$18,100Human Services$10,500Food & Nutrition$3,250Religion$2,923

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 budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc: $3,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,923 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUP WITH TREES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Oxley FoundationRalph and Frances McG…The Hardesty Family F…One Gas Foundation IncThe Sneed Foundation …The Charles & Marion …The Charles & Peggy S…Flint Family Foundati…Sanford P & Irene F B…Grace & Franklin Bern…The Gelvin FoundationThe Sharna and Irvin …
The Oxley FoundationOK15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oxley Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · The Sneed Foundation Inc · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation · The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank 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 Robert and Sandra Norman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Sandra Norman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 21 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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