· Private foundation
The Whitmire Family Charitable 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELLISON DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR ASD INC | $20,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $20,000 |
| DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $20,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $20,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $20,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CPCHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $280k · revenue +12%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +112%
Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TWTULSA WARBIRDS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -52% · 86% of their budget
- GAGRAND ACES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -98% · 65% of their budget
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Hearts for hearing advocates for, educates about, and innovatively provides comprehensive, life-changing hearing healthcare for all ages.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand Aces 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 59 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 CHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA FIREFIGHTERS BURN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA WARBIRDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ACES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kendall-Whittier Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Bit-By-Bit Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Living Arts of Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMS AROUND BA INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR BUNKER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds COFFEYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF TULSA 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 · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Hille Family Charitable Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · Flint Family 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 Whitmire Family Charitable 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.
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.