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Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc

Cultivate impactful partnerships and learning pathways that inspire and prepare all youth for a stem-enabled future.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$416kScience & Tech$335kYouth Development$49kCrime & Legal$19kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$11kReligion$9kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $30,448, the rows itemized in this filing. The $121,669 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $91,221 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USA BMX Foundation$10,000
Okeene Public Schools$8,000
Engage Learning Oklahoma$6,968
Oklahoma State University$5,480
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 (FY23–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance: $11k → 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 8 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
23

Total granted

$540k
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+64%

Still filing today

75%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JP
    JENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +65%
  • EL
    ENGAGE LEARNING OKLAHOMA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +270%
  • Global Gardens Incorporated
    2× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • US
    United States Space Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue +452%
  • GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • BA
    BROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION Igraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +76%
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
Oklahoma Connections Academy Inc

Oklahoma connections inc, a public charter school, uses the connections curriculum to offer oklahoma students in grades k-12 an exceptional learning experience.

Education
2
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
3
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools

The Foundation for Tulsa Schools was established to build a stronger community through the support of Tulsa Public Schools.

Education
4
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education
5
Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.

Education
6
Owasso Education Foundation Inc

Education - support of teachers to provide enhanced educational programs and activities

Education
7
Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation Inc

We are the leading advocate for okcps. we strengthen our schools through community investment, strategic partnerships, and innovative programs.

Education
8
Oklahoma Public School Resource Center Eigo Inc

The catalyst ed fund (cef) is a unique tax credit program that allows businesses to directly support innovative educational programs in oklahoma's rural public schools. these funds will significantly impact public schools' ability to…

Education
9
Western Gateway Elementary School

Operation of a charter school in oklahoma

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10
Oklahoma School of Innovation and Experiential Learning Inc

Provide opportunities within the stem discipline to design, collaborate and create are the primary educational goals of osiel. we extend the realm of academia beyond the four walls of a classroom by providing travel as a way of furthering…

Education
11
Illumination Education Inc

Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) provides a safe and challenging learning environment that cultivates students' academic and artistic excellence.

Education
12
Urban Discovery Schools

Urban discovery academy develops design thinkers who lead by example, making active, positive contributions to their local and global communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Schools Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Usa Bmx 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $121,005 · OtherTULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLSUNION PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $33,532 · OtherUNION PUBLIC SCHOOLSDon't Be Scared LLC: $15,000 · OtherMID-DEL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $14,160 · OtherSAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $12,292 · OtherCoweta Public Schools: $11,953 · OtherGATHERING PLACE: $11,520 · OtherNatrually STEM LLC: $11,000 · Other+11 more: $82,251 · Other+11 moreFab Lab Tulsa Inc: $255,000 · Arts & CultureFab Lab Tulsa IncTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCUnited States Space Foundation: $58,000 · EducationUnited States Space Foun…JENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $39,780 · EducationJENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOU…ENGAGE LEARNING OKLAHOMA INC: $27,564 · EducationENGAGE LEARNING OKLAHOMA…EDUCATION FOR SCHOLARS INC: $20,927 · EducationEDUCATION FOR SCHOLARS I…Urban Coders Guild: $12,325 · EducationUrban Coders GuildUNION SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,946 · EducationUNION SCHOOLS EDUCATION …JOHN W REX CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC: $11,624 · EducationJOHN W REX CHARTER ELEME…GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $23,568 · Youth DevelopmentUSA BMX Foundation: $18,997 · Crime & LegalBROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION I: $15,722 · PhilanthropyTULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $11,088 · Human Services
Other$312,713Arts & Culture$270,000Education$182,166Youth Development$48,568Crime & Legal$18,997Philanthropy$15,722Human Services$11,088

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFab Lab Tulsa Inc: $255,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetUnited States Space Foundation: $58,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $39,780 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetENGAGE LEARNING OKLAHOMA INC: $27,564 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $23,568 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOR SCHOLARS INC: $20,927 over 2y, 13% of budgetUSA BMX Foundation: $18,997 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION I: $15,722 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,946 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN W REX CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC: $11,624 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $11,088 over 1y, 3.4% 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 Fab Lab Tulsa Inc ↗
  • Who funds United States Space Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JENKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGAGE LEARNING OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds USA BMX Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION I ↗
  • Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Urban Coders Guild ↗
  • Who funds UNION SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHN W REX CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR ↗

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.

Tulsa Community Found…Coretz Family Foundat…The Gelvin FoundationCharles and Lynn Schu…George Kaiser Family …The Hardesty Family F…Oneok Foundation IncOne Gas Foundation IncGo for Great Schools …Mariska Family Founda…The Cuesta Foundation…The HA & Mary K Chapm…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK34.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · Go for Great Schools Inc · Mariska Family Foundation · The Cuesta Foundation Inc · The HA & Mary K Chapman Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 33 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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