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Tulsa Christian Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Tulsa Christian Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$671k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$1.7MEducation$413kHuman Services$236kInternational$200kHealth$156kHousing & Shelter$101kCommunity Improvement$94kFood & Nutrition$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $373k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $253k
$13,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST$103,000
WRIGHT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY PROJECT$50,000
OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
HARDING UNIVERSITY PROJECT$50,000
GREATER CITIES MISSION$36,000
FAMILY HOPE HOUSE$32,000
Individual grant recipient$26,800
CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA$25,000
KIBO GROUP INTERNATIONAL$19,500
CHRISTIAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION$18,660
ALAMEDA CHURCH OF CHRIST$16,200
STILLWATER CHURCH OF CHRIST$16,200
OPSU$16,200
COOKSON HILLS CHILDREN HOME$16,200
MISSION RESOURCE NETWORK$16,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $25k → 15%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $10k → 15%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $10k → 15%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $10k → 15%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $9k → 15%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $6k → 15%CITY LIGHT FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $6k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CO
NE
KS
AR
TN
OK
LA
AL
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 38 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
11

Total granted

$2.8M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+1%

Still filing today

34%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalReligionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RC
    Rochester Christian University
    7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +30%
  • MR
    MISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $79k · revenue +130%
  • TC
    THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue ×37

Funded once

  • Harding University Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • EN
    EVERY NATION MISSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +1% · 33% of their budget
  • CC
    CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
2
Teleo University

To provide affordable, accessible, accredited education to pastors and leaders to finish the great commission by multiplying disciple makers.

Education
3
Going Beyond Missions

Train Gods people to live out a missionary lifestyle in their daily lives to obey the Great Commission. Build many mission teams and send the teams to UUPG Unreached Unengaged Peoples Group and make 10% of the world population disciples of…

Religion
4
Western Covenant University

School

Education
5
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
6
Great Commission University Inc

Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…

Education
7
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

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8
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
9
Abbas House
Philanthropy
10
Whole World Ministries

Train&equip leaders for churchs

Religion
11
Eternity Bible College

As an institution of christian higher education, eternity bible college exists to glorify god through graduates whose lives are transformed by rigorous study of the bible as scripture, empassioned love for god, and gracious service in the…

Education
12
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Christian University; the most unlike its peers is Every Nation Mission Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST: $342,200 · OtherMEMORIAL DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRISTTHE JOURNEY CHURCH: $209,500 · OtherTHE JOURNEY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $122,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHRISTIAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION -CUDA-: $93,600 · OtherALAMEDA CHURCH OF CHRIST: $87,000 · OtherSTILLWATER CHURCH OF CHRIST: $87,000 · OtherBIBLE LEAGUE: $82,000 · OtherRochester Christian University: $79,500 · OtherLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $75,000 · Other+30 more: $939,630 · Other+30 moreOklahoma Christian University: $150,000 · EducationOklahoma Ch…NATIONS UNIVERSITY: $62,000 · EducationNATIONS UNI…Wright Christian Academy Inc: $50,000 · EducationWright Chri…YORK UNIVERSITY: $46,000 · EducationYORK UNIVER…Kibo Group International Incorporated: $128,000 · InternationalVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $33,000 · InternationalFAMILY HOPE HOUSE INC: $156,200 · HealthTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $75,990 · Human ServicesGHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS: $31,500 · Human ServicesMISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK: $79,000 · ReligionTRUTH FOR TODAY WORLD MISSION SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · ReligionWORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $60,750 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,117,430Education$308,000International$161,000Health$156,200Human Services$107,490Religion$89,000Arts & Culture$60,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY HOPE HOUSE INC: $156,200 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetOklahoma Christian University: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKibo Group International Incorporated: $128,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetRochester Christian University: $79,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK: $79,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $75,990 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONS UNIVERSITY: $62,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $60,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWright Christian Academy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $33,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS: $31,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDRY BONES DENVER: $25,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHarding University Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY NATION MISSION FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTRUTH FOR TODAY WORLD MISSION SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATHWAYS CORE TRAINING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
  • Who funds Kibo Group International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
  • Who funds MISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Wright Christian Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds GHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds DRY BONES DENVER ↗
  • Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
  • Who funds EVERY NATION MISSION 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.

Servant FoundationFrazier Foundation IncStephens' Christian T…Tulsa Community Found…The US Charitable Gif…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Servant FoundationKS17.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Frazier Foundation Inc · Stephens' Christian Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Christian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tulsa Christian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 51 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-PF 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home