· Community foundation
Tulsa Community Foundation
Tcf is organized and operated for charitable purposes primarily for the long term benefit of the tulsa metropolitan area and eastern oklahoma charitable causes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,066 grants below total $158,641,301 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $162,581,533 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,940,232 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k241 grants · $1.8M
- $10k–50k507 grants · $9.5M
- $50k–250k235 grants · $25M
- $250k+83 grants · $122M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $24,355,075 |
| GREENWOOD RISING INC | $16,603,301 |
| RIVER PARKS AUTHORITY TGP BRIDGE | $7,500,000 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC | $7,100,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC | $3,690,975 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $2,914,830 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $2,616,554 |
| MIDWAYUSA FOUNDATION INC | $2,300,000 |
| CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA | $2,284,093 |
| GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $1,984,591 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC | $1,888,000 |
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC | $1,575,000 |
| CHARMECK FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC | $1,505,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $26.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
1682 repeat relationships — 665 still active in FY2024, 1017 since wound down; 71 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- MUMIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $81M · revenue +89% · 69% of their budget
- GKGeorge Kaiser Family Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $56M · revenue +157%
GREENWOOD RISING INC3× · 2021–2024 · $17M · revenue ×231 · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- GBGKFF BEST LLCone grant, 2022 · $9.0M
- VLVHIT LLCone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- TCTULSA COUNTY PARKS DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.
Oklahoma Christian University Exists to educate, mentor, and inspire students to fulfill their potential and transform their lives through Christian faith, scholarship, and service.
Allen University is an academic community which provides students an opportunity to obtain baccalaureate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.
Funding of college scholarships and support of university programs.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Educating students within a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college program
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.
An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.
Our independent school provides an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Pioneers and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
1270 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. 1270 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds George Kaiser Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD RISING INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Still She Rises Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds TULSA EDUCARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARKS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE AND FIREARMS SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TULSAS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Library Trust ↗
- Who funds 1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds Go For Catholic Schools 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: Folds of Honor Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Flint Family Foundation
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 Community 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.
- Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc — 100% of income from government
- George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc — 68% of income from government
- Tulsa Educare Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Center for Housing Solutions Inc — 34% of income from government
- Tulsa Economic Development Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% 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
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University — 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.