· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom L Ward Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom L Ward Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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