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The William K Warren Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of The William K Warren 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.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$22,185,143
Median grant
1
States reached
$331M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATEMENT 29A$22,185,143
02Your field

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.

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Saint Francis Hospital South Llc

To extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do.

Health
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Tulsa Area United Way

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

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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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4
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
5
Oklahoma Hospital Association Inc

The mission of the Oklahoma Hospital Association is to promote the welfare of the public by representing its members and advocating on their behalf, providing services to assist its members in meeting the health care needs of their…

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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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Oklahoma State Medical Association

Osma's vision is to be the leading voice in health care for oklahoma's patients, families and physicians. osma's mission is better health for oklahoma.

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Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc

Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
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Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…

Health
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Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
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Southwestern Health Resources

To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…

Health

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 Rise Corp. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Addiction & Mental Health T…Senior Support ServicesHospice and Palliative CarePregnancy Support CentersCommunity Hospital SystemsCommunity FoundationsCharter and Independent Sch…Youth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr19%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%1%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr14%81%35–55yr19%7%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
2,509/19,389

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.

03the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATEMENT 30A — $42,390,503 · OtherSTATEMENT 30ASTATEMENT 29A — $22,185,143 · OtherSTATEMENT 29A+13 more — $390,971 · OtherLaureate Institute for Brain Research Inc — $7,597,884 · Social ScienceLaureate I…WILLIAM K WARREN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER, INC. — $4,800,000 · HealthSaint Francis Health System Inc — $1,013,150 · Health+5 more — $357,306 · HealthVanderbilt University — $2,222,222 · Education+1 more — $68,000 · EducationMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc — $150,000 · Food & NutritionFamily & Childrens Services Inc — $38,000 · Human ServicesClarehouse Inc — $12,500 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' HOME INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRISE CORP — $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGO LIFE MOBILE MEDICAL INC — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $32,880 · Philanthropy
Other$64,966,617Social Science$7,597,884Health$6,170,456Education$2,290,222Food & Nutrition$150,000Human Services$86,000Philanthropy$32,880

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLaureate Institute for Brain Research Inc — $7,597,884 over 1y, 52% of budgetWILLIAM K WARREN MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER, INC. — $4,800,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetVanderbilt University — $2,222,222 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — $198,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTulsa ToughInc — $104,306 over 1y, 42% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $68,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc — $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $32,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClarehouse Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLAUREATE PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC AND HOSPITALINC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget12 & 12 INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGO LIFE MOBILE MEDICAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oklahoma Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Tulsa Community Found…The Hardesty Family F…The Anne and Henry Za…Mervin Bovaird Founda…Ralph and Frances McG…Sarkeys FoundationMorningcrest Healthca…Grace & Franklin Bern…Tulsa Area United WayThe Sharna and Irvin …One Gas Foundation IncGeorge Kaiser Family …
Tulsa Community FoundationOK35.8× affinity18 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 · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Sarkeys Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser 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.

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How do I get to The William K Warren Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The William K Warren Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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