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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.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$288kEducation$269kHuman Services$205kArts & Culture$153kScience & Tech$72kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$22kHealth$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%DVIS: $3k → 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.
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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%.

The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 28 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$1.1M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+34%

Still filing today

32%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther
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 BOYS' HOME INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +33%
  • The University of Tulsa
    8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +8%
  • THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $97k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF TULSA
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PA
    Pathways Adult Learning Center Incgraduated
    one 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.

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 Children's Museum Inc

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

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

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

Education
4
Oklahoma Educational Memorial Trust Fdn

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…

Education
5
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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6
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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7
The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc Endowment Trust

Supporting organization for the parent child center of tulsa providing services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy.

Human Services
8
Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

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.

Education
9
Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust

Tulsa performing arts center trust provides opportunities to experience diversity through the arts.

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10
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
11
Tulsa County Medical Society Inc

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.

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12
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc

To preserve and create works of ballet and educate through training and outreach.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $245,762 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHURCH OF SAINT MARY: $131,023 · OtherCHURCH OF SAINT MARYASBURY UNITED METHODIST: $89,776 · OtherASBURY UNITED METHODISTCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TULSA: $35,850 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TULSABISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $34,290 · OtherFIRST TEE: $26,700 · Other+31 more: $106,160 · Other+31 moreTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $187,300 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' HOME IN…+3 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $97,130 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK …TULSA OPERA INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA OPERA IN…+4 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe University of Tulsa: $114,396 · EducationThe Universi…SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $6,017 · EducationFriends of Catholic Education: $7,928 · PhilanthropySCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION: $3,580 · PhilanthropyCHURCHCRAFT INC DBA CHURCHCRAFT CONSULTING: $8,079 · ReligionAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,750 · HealthBirthright of Tulsa: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$669,561Human Services$195,800Arts & Culture$144,630Education$125,413Philanthropy$11,508Religion$8,079Health$2,750Civil Rights$500

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 BOYS' HOME INC: $187,300 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $114,396 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $97,130 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTULSA OPERA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHURCHCRAFT INC DBA CHURCHCRAFT CONSULTING: $8,079 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of Catholic Education: $7,928 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc: $4,017 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION: $3,580 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel University: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright of Tulsa: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHispanic American Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK30.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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