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Town Branch 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+34 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Peel Compton Foundation | $3,854,715 |
| The Peel Compton Foundation | $2,572,229 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000,000 |
| Heartland Forward Inc | $1,661,880 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | $1,440,000 |
| TNTP Inc | $1,320,148 |
| Oklahoma Public School Resource Center Inc | $1,000,030 |
| Arkansas Public School Resource Center Inc | $849,000 |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $833,333 |
| The Peel Compton Foundation | $750,000 |
| Walton Family Foundation Inc | $733,012 |
| Arkansas Public School Resource Center Inc | $702,500 |
| Phalen Leadership Academies Indiana Inc | $695,000 |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $623,324 |
| Oklahoma Public School Resource Center Inc | $620,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Town Branch Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 14 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.0M 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
- HFHeartland Forward Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $17M · revenue +20% · 50% of their budget
- OPOKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +48% · 78% of their budget
- APARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SSSCHOOL SMART KC INCone grant, 2023 · $2.3M · revenue +20% · 28% of their budget
- CRCRISTO REY OKLAHOMA CITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $599k
- AOASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $570k · revenue -39%
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.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peel Compton Foundation. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 63 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.
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- Who funds Heartland Forward Inc ↗
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- Who funds OKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
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- Who funds PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA ↗
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- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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- Who funds ADVANCE RURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CONSERVATION RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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- Who funds COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Oklahoma Public School Resource Center · United Way of Grayson County Inc · W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Texoma Community Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
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 Town Branch 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Public School Resource Center — 67% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Dove Schools Inc — 0% 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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