· Private foundation
The Ross Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TULSA TOUGH INC | $20,000 |
| OSU | $10,000 |
| THE ROCK HOUSE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CHOCTAW-NICOMA PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,000 |
| STROUD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| NEO A&M | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY SOUTH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its 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.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTulsa ToughInc4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +358%
The University of Tulsa2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +8%- TGTULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- R6ROUTE 66 ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2017 · $73k
- TPTULSA POLICE HEROES FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k
- AANONYMOUSone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools was established to build a stronger community through the support of Tulsa Public Schools.
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…
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 mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
Organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, specifically for the sole benefit of Tulsa Press Club Benevolent Association, Inc. to aid in carrying out the mission to promote the highest standards of journalism and to…
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Kipp tulsa prepares students from educationally under-served neighborhoods in tulsa, ok with the academic, character and life skills necessary for success in college and the competitive world beyond.
How this is measured
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 35 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 Tulsa ToughInc ↗
- Who funds BOOKER T WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rogers State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
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 Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Stuart Family Foundation · Hille Family Charitable Foundation · Saint Francis Hospital Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ross Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ross Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Rogers State University Foundation: 20% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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