· Private foundation
Virginia Mayo Ownby Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,262 |
| TULSA BOYS' HOME | $3,262 |
| ST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $3,262 |
| TULSA OPERA INC | $3,262 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $3,262 |
| TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC | $3,262 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,262 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $3,262 |
| TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,262 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,262 |
| TULSA GARDEN CENTER | $3,262 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,262 |
| THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE INC | $3,262 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN | $1,631 |
| BAPTIST RETIREMENT CENTERS OF OKLAHOMA | $1,631 |
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 (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
TULSA BOYS' HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +33%- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +73%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +46%
Funded once
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.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
Theatre tulsa provided theatre education programming throughout the fiscal year serving 125 students. the education program included 3 staged youth shows.
To be the advocate for both physician and patient, to support quality health care, to be a leader in health care reform, and to sustain a continuing dialogue between the membership and the community in which we live and work.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
To extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
The mission of the oklahoma city museum of art is to enrich lives through the visual arts.
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.
To share the experience of chamber music through live performance and community engagement
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.
Financial support of Town Hall of Tulsa Corporation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Light House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Garden Center ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN 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: Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Poe Family Foundation · The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett · A R and Marylouise Tandy Foundation · Tulsa Economic Development Corporation · The Oxley Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · El and Thelma Gaylord 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 Virginia Mayo Ownby Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% 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.