· Private foundation
The Robinson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $532k
- $250k+1 grant · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Catholic Education | $369,525 |
| Individual grant recipient | $81,935 |
| Catholic Charites of Tulsa | $75,000 |
| Family and Childrens Services | $75,000 |
| Community Food Bank of Eastern OK | $50,000 |
| The Spring | $50,000 |
| Day Center for the Homeless | $50,000 |
| Iron Gate | $50,000 |
| the Little Lighthouse | $50,000 |
| Neighbor for Neighbor | $50,000 |
| Crossover Community Impact | $25,000 |
| Reading Partners | $25,000 |
| Tulsa Boys Home | $25,000 |
| Youth Services | $25,000 |
| John 316 Mission | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) 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 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- FCFamily & Childrens Services Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +164%
LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +58%
IRON GATE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SPSTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
- HFHOLY FAMILY CATHEDRAL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SPSts Peter and Paul Schoolone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
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.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To serve those who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.
Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
Crossover health services (chs) envisions a christian healthcare movement where faith, strong relationships, and shared resources drive community restoration and eliminate health disparities. we believe that healthcare is a right, not a…
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 Institute of Real Estate Management Tulsa Chapter 10. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 49 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 Friends of Catholic Education ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HANDS EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · The David E & Cassie L Temple Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Oxley Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Flint Family Foundation
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 Robinson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% 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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