· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE INC | $3,262 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,262 |
| CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,262 |
| TULSA OPERA INC | $3,262 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,262 |
| GILCREASE MUSEUM | $3,262 |
| TULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,262 |
| TULSA BOYS' HOME | $3,262 |
| ST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $3,262 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,262 |
| PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART | $3,262 |
| TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC | $3,262 |
| TULSA GARDEN CENTER | $3,262 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN | $1,631 |
| BAPTIST RETIREMENT CENTERS OF OKLAHOMA | $1,631 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia Mayo Ownby Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Mayo Ownby Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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