· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIV | $5,000 |
| BISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE | $1,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIV FOUR DIAMONDS | $515 |
| OKLAHOMA COWGIRLS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $500 |
| THE PENCIL BOX | $500 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
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
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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 57 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 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
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 · 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
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 Sam J & Nona M Rhoades 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.
- 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
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.