· Private foundation
The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades 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 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 $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,921 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $27,000 |
| CHURCH OF SAINT MARY | $25,000 |
| TULSA BOYS HOME | $23,000 |
| CHURCHCRAFT | $8,079 |
| SERRA CLUB TULSAROMAN CATHOLIC DIOC | $5,000 |
| BISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIV | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE | $1,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIV FOUR DIAMONDS | $515 |
| INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $500 |
| THE PENCIL BOX | $500 |
| OKLAHOMA COWGIRLS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 19 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TULSA BOYS' HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +33%
The University of Tulsa8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +8%
THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2017–2021 · $97k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF TULSAone grant, 2019 · $7k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PAPathways Adult Learning Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +557%
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.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
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.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
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 tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Supporting organization for the parent child center of tulsa providing services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy.
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.
Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
To be the advocate for both physician and patient, to support quality health care, to be a leader in health care reform, and to sustain a continuing dialogue between the membership and the community in which we live and work.
To preserve and create works of ballet and educate through training and outreach.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 57 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 BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHCRAFT INC DBA CHURCHCRAFT CONSULTING ↗
- Who funds Friends of Catholic Education ↗
- Who funds Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
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 Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Oxley Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · John and Donnie Brock Foundation · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
- 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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