· Private foundation
Tom J & Edna Mae Carson 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westville Public Schools | $250,825 |
| Northeastern University | $75,000 |
| Orchard Road Community Outreach | $48,000 |
| Jermiah 29 Foundation | $41,000 |
| Adair County Junior Livestock | $40,950 |
| Stilwell Youth League | $22,000 |
| Stilwell Public Schools | $21,000 |
| Adair County Resouce Center | $20,000 |
| Communities Foundation of Oklahoma | $20,000 |
| Tenkiler Public School | $15,000 |
| Cave Springs School | $15,000 |
| Westville Education Foundation | $14,950 |
| AR OK Reg Education & Promo Assn Inc | $3,150 |
| AR-OK State Fair | $2,700 |
| Watts Public Schools | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
- OSOklahoma State University Foundation3× · 2020–2022 · $353k · revenue +63%
- ACADAIR COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +16% · 35% of their budget
- JBJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ACADAIR COUNTY FAIR BOARDone grant, 2023 · $250k
- ATA T Still University of Health Sciencesone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +16%
- ZPZION PUBLIC SCHOOL #28one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
As a christian liberal arts university, oklahoma baptist university transforms lives by equipping students to pursue academic excellence, integrate faith with all areas of knowledge, engage a diverse world, and live worthy of the high…
The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Provide financial services to its members.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
Fosters an awareness of the obligations and responsibilities of the dental profession to society, to help advance the art and science of dentistry, and to promote public health and health services in the state of oklahoma.
American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 60 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 ADAIR COUNTY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds A T Still University of Health Sciences ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD ROAD COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADAIR COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds ZOE INSTITUTE 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: Arvest Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Tom J & Edna Mae Carson 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.
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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