· 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Pencil Box | $10,000 |
| KWGS | $6,000 |
| Clubhouse Tulsa | $500 |
| Junior Achievement of Oklahoma | $500 |
| Up with Trees | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| The Assistance League of Tulsa | $500 |
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, $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 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 +118% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- TPTulsa Press Clubone grant, 2022 · $2k
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -43%
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Will Rogers Rotary Club Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Will Rogers Rotary Club Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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