· Private foundation
The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k107 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $250,000 |
| THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,021 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $50,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA | $45,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA | $40,000 |
| NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC DBA MADISON STRATEG | $35,000 |
| KIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $35,000 |
| RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $30,000 |
| 1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC | $30,000 |
| PROJECT ELF INC | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY21–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 7% of The Sharna and Irvin Frank 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- BBB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $275k · revenue ×12
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY5× · 2021–2025 · $252k · revenue +10%
YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +72%
- YYMCAone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +115%
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.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
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.
Tulsa educare, inc.'s mission is to transform lives through high-quality early childhood education, meaningful family engagement, and impactful early learning supports.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
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…
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 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
195 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. 195 of the 256 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ELF INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC ↗
- Who funds 1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE T-TOWN ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc ↗
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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way
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 Sharna and Irvin Frank 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Oklahoma Public School Resource Center — 67% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Center for Housing Solutions Inc — 34% of income from government
- Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Mediation Program Inc — 17% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Growing Together Inc — 9% of income from government
- 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
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% 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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