· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| US CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS DBA CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLA | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DALAS | $15,000 |
| CLAREHOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $15,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF TULSA | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 51 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 Library Trust ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION 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 Clarehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT 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 MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds UP WITH TREES 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waters Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waters Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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