· Public charity
Tulsa Area United Way
The TULSA AREA UNITED WAY unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+29 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,300,515 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $1,156,968 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES | $931,425 |
| YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA | $890,461 |
| LIFE SENIOR SEVICES | $858,431 |
| YMCA OF GREATER TULSA | $757,886 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY | $686,031 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF TULSA | $651,351 |
| THE PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA | $618,249 |
| A NEW LEAF | $556,236 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA | $551,917 |
| TULSA CARES | $533,763 |
| THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES | $498,942 |
| STREET SCHOOL | $465,007 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL) | $464,501 |
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 (FY17–24, $66.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
- FCFamily & Childrens Services Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +221%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +26%
YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +2%
Funded once
TULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue -12%- AASEMIOone grant, 2022 · $75k
MET CARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -86%
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.
Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
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.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
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…
Skillz on wheelz (sow) is a non-profit mobile organization that offers free therapy sessions and case management resources to assist those with limited access to mental health care in the north tulsa area.
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
To promote the self-sufficiency of the socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged citizens of oklahoma and canadian counties and to eliminate the paradox of poverty among these citizens by opening to everyone the opportunity to…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Smiles of Faith Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 96 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 Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
- Who funds HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES ↗
- Who funds INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YWCA TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER CONTINUUM OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Morton Comprehensive Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds Youth At Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 12 & 12 INC ↗
- Who funds TSHA INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY RESOURCES 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 · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · One Gas Foundation Inc · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc
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 Tulsa Area United Way 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.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Center for Housing Solutions Inc — 34% of income from government
- Morton Comprehensive Health Services Inc — 25% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Ability Resources Inc — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Growing Together Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 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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