· Private foundation
Will Rogers Rotary Club 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Pencil Box | $10,000 |
| KWGS | $6,000 |
| Up with Trees | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| The Assistance League of Tulsa | $500 |
| Junior Achievement of Oklahoma | $500 |
| Clubhouse Tulsa | $500 |
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, $13k) 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 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 +118% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- RCResonance Center for Women Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +118%
- FOFRIENDS OF STARLIGHT CONCERTS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +26%
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC3× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +232%
Funded once
- R6ROUTE 66 ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -43%
Emergency Infant Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +38%
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.
Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To serve as horticultural headquarters with diverse educational opportunities for our community, and to provide exceptional and unique guest experiences in Woodward Park
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 tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Entertains, educates, heals, and inspires through musical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.
To strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another, and to promote democracy, human rights, and freedom in our association.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Children's Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Resonance Center for Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 The Pencil Box Inc ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF STARLIGHT CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds UP WITH TREES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · One Gas Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation · The HA & Mary K Chapman Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee
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 Will Rogers Rotary Club 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.
- Up With Trees Inc — 100% 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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