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Zarrow Families 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$921kHealth$747kEducation$708kArts & Culture$688kHuman Services$591kCommunity Improvement$406kYouth Development$363kFood & Nutrition$349kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $403k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $696k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULSA DREAM CENTER INC$100,000
YOUTH MEDICAL MENTORSHIP$95,500
LEADERSHIP TULSA$88,919
SMILES OF FAITH$80,000
TRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC$75,000
CARABELLE'S LEGACY$57,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTION INC$50,000
URBAN CODERS GUILD$50,000
LA COSECHA$50,000
CENTER FOR HOUSING SOLUTIONS$50,000
SOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION$46,500
GREENWOOD RISING$36,000
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$35,500
THE FOUNDATION FOR TULSA SCHOOLS$35,000
BIRTHRIGHT LIVING LEGACY INC$35,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $471k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 12%Funders Together to End Homelessnes: $5k → 16%LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%Operation Restoration: $13k → 23%Funders Together to End Homelessnes: $5k → 16%Love INC of Greater Cushing: $1k → 19%John 316 Mission: $2k → 14%John 316 Mission: $2k → 14%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%YWCA OF TULSA: $25k → 15%Clarehouse: $5k → 15%Clarehouse: $5k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $63k → 15%LA COSECHA: $50k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $20k → 15%Crossover Community Impact Inc: $15k → 15%Domestic Violence Intervention Serv: $750 → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $500 → 15%CROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INCORPORATED: $50k → 15%CROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INCORPORATED: $47k → 15%Neighbor for Neighbor: $5k → 15%MARTHA'S FOUNDATION: $39k → 15%MARTHA'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%Life Senior Servcies Inc: $5k → 15%Community Action Project Tulsa Coun: $5k → 15%Community Action Project Tulsa Coun: $5k → 15%Life Senior Servcies Inc: $5k → 15%OKLAHOMA METHODIST MANOR: $1k → 15%TRINITY WOODS: $1k → 15%HEARTS FOR HEARING FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%TRINITY WOODS: $500 → 15%New Sanctuary Empowerment Center: $3k → 15%GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER: $30k → 15%Family and Childrens Services: $6k → 15%Family and Childrens Services: $5k → 15%TRINITY WOODS: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
CA
MD
NM
DC
OK
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Zarrow Families Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Zarrow Families Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 86 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
63

Total granted

$4.7M
$999k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UC
    Urban Coders Guild
    5× · 2021–2025 · $347k · revenue +64%
  • Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $193k · revenue +45%
  • TC
    TRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $186k · revenue +27% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $156k · revenue +39%
  • THE REED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -46% · 29% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement
2
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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3
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
4
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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6
Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights
7
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
8
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Tulsa Community Loan Fund Inc

To support community efforts to provide a greater supply of affordable housing in tulsa county and the surrounding area.

Housing & Shelter
10
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
11
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Casa de la Cultura Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 170 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/116
Grantees still filing
74/116
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $121,500 · OtherTHEATRE NORTH: $112,100 · OtherTHUNDER FELLOWS PROGRAM: $100,000 · OtherHORTON RECORDS LTD: $130,000 · OtherTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $156,000 · OtherTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $192,500 · OtherMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa IncOKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC: $126,500 · OtherLEADERSHIP TULSA INC: $165,419 · OtherLEADERSHIP TULSA INC+98 more: $1,731,274 · Other+98 moreTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $527,500 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY …JEWISH FEDERATION OF TULSA: $247,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…MET CARES FOUNDATION INC: $179,250 · PhilanthropyMET CARES FOUNDA…+7 more: $26,850 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTION INC: $165,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEA…SMILES OF FAITH INC: $150,000 · HealthSMILES OF FAI…Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $144,500 · HealthMental Health…CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S ME…SUPPORTERS OF FAMILIES WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE: $80,000 · HealthSUPPORTERS OF…GRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $48,500 · HealthGRAND LAKE ME…GUIDING RIGHT INC: $45,000 · HealthGUIDING RIGHT…THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $44,650 · Health+3 moreUrban Coders Guild: $347,250 · EducationUrban Coders…YOUTH MEDICAL MENTORSHIP INC: $125,500 · EducationYOUTH MEDICA…The Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $110,900 · EducationThe Foundati…URBAN INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $53,000 · EducationURBAN INNOVA…The University of Tulsa: $31,500 · Education+8 more: $83,800 · Education+8 moreTULSA DREAM CENTER INC: $303,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE REED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC: $60,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $30,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $111,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $84,000 · Human ServicesLA COSECHA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMartha's Foundation: $45,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Infant Services Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesYWCA TULSA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services+14 more: $82,240 · Human ServicesTRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC: $185,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION: $171,500 · Community ImprovementEast Tulsa Main Street aka Tulsa Global District: $90,136 · Community Improvement
Other$2,835,293Philanthropy$981,100Health$832,650Education$751,950Youth Development$506,000Human Services$472,740Community Improvement$447,136

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $527,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Coders Guild: $347,250 over 5y, 15% of budgetTULSA DREAM CENTER INC: $303,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF TULSA: $247,500 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $192,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTRI-CITY COLLECTIVE INC: $185,500 over 4y, 39% of budgetMET CARES FOUNDATION INC: $179,250 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION: $171,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP TULSA INC: $165,419 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTION INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $156,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSMILES OF FAITH INC: $150,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $144,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHORTON RECORDS LTD: $130,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetOKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC: $126,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYOUTH MEDICAL MENTORSHIP INC: $125,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $121,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $111,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $110,900 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE REED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetEast Tulsa Main Street aka Tulsa Global District: $90,136 over 2y, 14% of budgetCarabelles Legacy Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT LIVING LEGACY INC: $85,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $84,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUPPORTERS OF FAMILIES WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE: $80,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetREVITALIZE T-TOWN: $77,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCasa de la Cultura Inc: $61,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetNEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC: $60,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetURBAN INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $53,000 over 3y, 34% of budget1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC: $52,189 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBeHeard Movement Inc: $50,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRAND LAKE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $48,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING RIGHT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMartha's Foundation: $45,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetJUST THE BEGINNING: $37,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetHispanic American Foundation Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTulsa Coalition of 100 Black Men Association: $28,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetTULSA BLACK MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTULSA HONOR ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Anne and Henry Za…George Kaiser Family …Tulsa Community Found…The Hardesty Family F…The Gelvin FoundationMaxine and Jack Zarro…The Sharna and Irvin …Coretz Family Foundat…Charles and Lynn Schu…Sanford P & Irene F B…Mervin Bovaird Founda…One Gas Foundation Inc
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK127.3× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zarrow Families Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zarrow Families Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 450%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Up With Trees Inc: 100% of income from government
  • American Indian Resource Center Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Guiding Right Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Supporters of Families With Sickle Cell Disease: 26% of income from government
  • Community Health Connection Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: 8% of income from government
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • Grand Lake Mental Health Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
45get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Zarrow Families Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zarrow Families Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 170 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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