· Private foundation
The William S Smith Charitable Trust
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $942k
- $250k+8 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMBLE SONS BIKE COMPANY | $2,625,000 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $1,125,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $925,000 |
| TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC | $640,000 |
| YMCA | $500,000 |
| LIFE SENIOR SERVICES | $458,333 |
| RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| TULSA DAY CENTER | $252,000 |
| FOOD ON THE MOVE | $225,000 |
| PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER | $166,667 |
| WILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH | $150,000 |
| OSU FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $75,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $50,000 |
| OKLAHOMA ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.7M) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $529k 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
- HSHUMBLE SONS BIKE COMPANY4× · 2021–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +591% · 64% of their budget
- TZTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +53%
Food on the Move Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue +12%
TULSA AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +10%- SSSAINT SIMEON'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
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 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.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
Iron gate's mission is simple. we feed the hungry and homeless of tulsa, every day. we feed people in three ways, through our community meal, grocery pantry, and kids pantry.
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.
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Riverfield Country Day School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 26 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 THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUMBLE SONS BIKE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Riverfield Country Day School ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE T-TOWN ↗
- Who funds Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kendall-Whittier Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE 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 · Flint Family Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · The Charles & Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation · Coretz 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 William S Smith Charitable Trust 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% 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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