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Tulsa Area United Way

The TULSA AREA UNITED WAY unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$57MHealth$37MYouth Development$24MEducation$15MEmployment$13MCrime & Legal$9.6MHousing & Shelter$4.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $314k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+29 grants · $16M
$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $758k → 15%YMCA OF CREATER TULSA: $719k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $719k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $719k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $719k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $659k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $659k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $659k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $972k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $931k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $931k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $883k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $883k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $910k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $910k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $910k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SEVICES: $858k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SEVICES: $858k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SEVICES: $830k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SEVICES: $830k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $774k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $774k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $766k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $755k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $686k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $683k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $638k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $633k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY: $633k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TULSA: $735k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TULSA: $734k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TULSA: $712k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.7M → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.7M → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.7M → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.6M → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.6M → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.4M → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.2M → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.2M → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $907k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $902k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $890k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $890k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $890k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $840k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $807k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $757k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164M · 71 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
17

Total granted

$164M
$738k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEmploymentEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FC
    Family & Childrens Services Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +221%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +26%
  • YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue -12%
  • A
    ASEMIO
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • MET CARES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -86%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

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.

Community Improvement
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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3
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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4
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
5
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

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.…

Health
7
Counseling Skillz On Wheelz

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.

Health
8
Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc

Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
9
La Luz Organization Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Community Action Agency of Oklahoma City & Oklahoma/Canadian Counties

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…

Human Services
11
Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; 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.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 96 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/90
Grantees still filing
65/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Family & Childrens Services Inc: $12,596,635 · Human ServicesFamily & Childrens Services IncDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $7,988,533 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICESYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $6,886,204 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INCLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $6,446,671 · Human ServicesLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INCTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA: $5,815,721 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREAT…COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $5,247,837 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INCYWCA TULSA INC: $3,601,894 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $2,761,983 · Human ServicesCommunity Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United: $2,522,432 · Human ServicesBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $2,316,601 · Human Services+16 more: $12,868,511 · Human Services+16 moreSALVATION ARMY: $10,696,215 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $5,196,961 · OtherTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA IN…INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,106,884 · OtherINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUT…AMERICAN RED CROSS TULSA AREA CHAPTER: $3,933,029 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS TULSA AREA CH…A NEW LEAF INC: $3,553,667 · OtherA NEW LEAF INCCAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC: $2,540,677 · OtherCAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INCTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,749,250 · OtherTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTULSA DAY CENTER INC: $1,900,000 · Other+32 more: $12,921,676 · Other+32 moreMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $4,474,375 · HealthMental Health…HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES: $4,135,307 · HealthHIV Resource …PALMER CONTINUUM OF CARE INC: $3,047,849 · HealthPALMER CONTIN…Morton Comprehensive Health Services Inc: $3,030,000 · HealthMorton Compre…THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $2,562,559 · HealthTHE CENTER FO…GRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $700,000 · HealthTHE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC: $666,600 · Health+4 more: $782,100 · HealthSTREET SCHOOL INC: $3,320,056 · EducationKIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC: $2,886,875 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $2,368,750 · EducationThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $2,092,961 · EducationTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $438,000 · EducationGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF TULSA INC: $4,584,850 · EmploymentNEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC: $2,158,500 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,308,250 · EmploymentSHOW INC: $940,165 · Employment+1 more: $50,000 · EmploymentLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $3,499,300 · Crime & LegalChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $2,023,125 · Crime & LegalYOUTH SERVICES OF CREEK COUNTY INC: $1,217,500 · Crime & LegalOKMULGEE-OKFUSKEE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $1,012,439 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $151,250 · Crime & LegalGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $2,851,686 · Youth DevelopmentGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $550,100 · Youth Development+1 more: $60,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$69,053,022Other$47,598,359Health$19,398,790Education$11,106,642Employment$9,041,765Crime & Legal$7,903,614Youth Development$3,461,786

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc: $12,596,635 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $7,988,533 over 8y, 17% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $6,886,204 over 8y, 12% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $6,446,671 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA: $5,815,721 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $5,247,837 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC: $5,196,961 over 8y, 15% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF TULSA INC: $4,584,850 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $4,474,375 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES: $4,135,307 over 8y, 28% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,106,884 over 8y, 12% of budgetYWCA TULSA INC: $3,601,894 over 8y, 16% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $3,553,667 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $3,499,300 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSTREET SCHOOL INC: $3,320,056 over 8y, 17% of budgetPALMER CONTINUUM OF CARE INC: $3,047,849 over 8y, 14% of budgetMorton Comprehensive Health Services Inc: $3,030,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetKIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC: $2,886,875 over 8y, 10% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $2,851,686 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $2,761,983 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,749,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $2,562,559 over 8y, 20% of budgetCAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC: $2,540,677 over 8y, 30% of budgetCommunity Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United: $2,522,432 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $2,368,750 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $2,316,601 over 8y, 13% of budgetNEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC: $2,158,500 over 8y, 29% of budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $2,092,961 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $2,023,125 over 8y, 19% of budgetYouth At Heart Inc: $1,981,800 over 8y, 32% of budgetTULSA DAY CENTER INC: $1,900,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $1,845,458 over 8y, 12% of budget12 & 12 INC: $1,500,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTSHA INC: $1,480,839 over 7y, 23% of budgetThe Arc of Oklahoma Inc: $1,458,893 over 8y, 32% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,308,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSTOWN LEARNING CENTER INC: $1,270,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetABILITY RESOURCES INC: $1,252,458 over 8y, 12% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF CREEK COUNTY INC: $1,217,500 over 8y, 26% of budgetOPERATION AWARE OF OKLAHOMA: $1,142,224 over 8y, 46% of budgetOKMULGEE COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: $1,051,724 over 8y, 20% of budgetAmplify Inc: $1,040,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetOKMULGEE-OKFUSKEE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $1,012,439 over 8y, 18% of budgetHOSPICE OF GREEN COUNTRY INC: $955,269 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $941,667 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHOW INC: $940,165 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetTULSA CASA INC: $900,872 over 8y, 20% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $776,255 over 5y, 75% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Anne and Henry Za…George Kaiser Family …The Gelvin FoundationThe Sharna and Irvin …Tulsa Community Found…Grace & Franklin Bern…Oneok Foundation IncRalph and Frances McG…One Gas Foundation IncMorningcrest Healthca…Mervin Bovaird Founda…The Hardesty Family F…
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK128.7× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tulsa Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tulsa Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Tulsa Area United Way?

Find your warmest path to Tulsa Area United Way through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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