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Waters Charitable Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND HALL | $200,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEATHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| UNIVERITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| US CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS DBA CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLA | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $15,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DALAS | $15,000 |
| CLAREHOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| IRON GATE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $597k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TLTulsa Library Trust5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +316%
IRON GATE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +66%
LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SCSCOTT CARTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROGone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%- STSCPA - TULSA SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
To provide monkeys retired from research and rescued from the pet trade and other abusive situations with permanent refuge and companionship in safe and healthy habitats.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Spring Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 51 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 Library Trust ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds Tulsa SPCA ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds UP WITH TREES 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: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Arvest 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 Waters Charitable 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.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 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.
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