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Tom L Ward Family 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $129k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKYLINE CHURCH | $1,020,000 |
| WHITE FIELDS INC | $500,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $129,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL REFORMED BAPTIST SEMINARY (IRBS) | $1,000 |
| RICHMOND COUNTRY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| CJD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE ROC YOUTH PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEART FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JAROLD CALLAHAN LASTING LEGACY | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +9% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- SCSKYLINE CHURCH4× · 2021–2024 · $3.3M
- WFWhite Fields Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $510k · revenue -49%
- MCMAYO CLINIC4× · 2021–2024 · $189k
Funded once
THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue -6%- TSTHE SARAH STITT HOPE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -22% · 27% of their budget
- FOFIELDS OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $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.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…
Establish, maintain, and conduct a school for the instruction and training of youth.
To increase the availability of affordable, safe housing options for low-to-moderate income families, by providing assistance to those who wish to become renters or homeowners through a variety of wealth-building programs.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is White Fields Inc. 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 28 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 White Fields Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SARAH STITT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CALM WATERS CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
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: Servant Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Wegener Foundation Inc · Love Meyer Family Foundation · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Signatry Charitable Trust · McLaughlin 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 Tom L Ward Family 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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