How much does Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation give?

Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation reported 476 grants totaling $37,346,570 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 329 and 354 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (19%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Education (14%).

Who are Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Oklahoma State University Foundation ($10M), Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ($8.7M), Affordable Housing Property Solutions Inc ($8.0M).

Does Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation, Sarkeys Foundation.

Where is Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation based?

Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation is based in Tulsa, OK.

Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation

Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation at a glance

Tulsa, OK · Private foundation

Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37M

Granted FY2024still arriving

476

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.2M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$35MHousing & Shelter$29MEducation$26MHealth$24MHuman Services$22MArts & Culture$10MFood & Nutrition$8.2MInternational$7.6MOther$0

02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 476 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Grant-size mix · FY2020–FY2024

FY20

13%

22%

64%

$44.8M

FY21

17%

24%

57%

$31.9M

FY22

17%

21%

60%

$34.0M

FY23

17%

21%

60%

$35.1M

FY24

13%

21%

64%

$37.3M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2020, 64% of its dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024, 64%. Each bar is that year’s mix, not its total.

$24,320

Median grant

States reached

$488M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YMCA OF GREATER TULSA	$2,200,000
HOUSING SOLUTIONS TULSA	$1,800,000
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC	$1,500,000
HOUSING SOLUTIONS TULSA	$1,336,000
HOUSING PARTNERS OF TULSA INC	$1,250,000
TULSA LIBRARY TRUST	$1,250,000
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$985,400
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$870,000
HUNGER FREE OKLAHOMA	$850,000
TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$650,000
TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$625,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $14.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 91%.

Anne & Henry Zarrow 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$142M · 375 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

375 repeat relationships: 263 still active in FY2024, 112 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of its 380 multi-year relationships, 199 repeat the same amount every year (19% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

It also reports $5.3M approved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV): grants committed but not yet paid.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

375

131

Total granted

$142M

$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+21%

Still filing today

84%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $794k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

OS
Oklahoma State University Foundation
5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +63%
MH
Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma
5× · 2020–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +173% · 74% of their budget
TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +149% · 26% of their budget
Green Country Habitat for Humanity (formerly Tulsa Habitat for Humanity) has grown from a single-city ministry founded in 1987 into a regional force, rebranding in 2021 alongside a $35 million north Tulsa development initiative, a new ReStore in Jenks, and a northeast Oklahoma revitalization groundbreaking.

Funded once

Parkside Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
CC
CROSSOVER COMMUNITY IMPACT INC
one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -91%
VH
VINTAGE HOUSING INC A NON-PROFIT AFFILIATE OF LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC
one grant, 2020 · $500k

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.

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

What its grantees report

Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.

Of 53 organizations, 6 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

How this is measured

Read from 53 of the 198 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.

TULSA DAY CENTER INC

Conviction

Sustained anchor through transformative growth

The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation has supported Tulsa Day Center across five grants between 2020 and 2024, committing $5,313,854 and representing as much as 30% of the organization's budget at peak. Alongside that sustained partnership, the Day Center completed an $8.5 million facility remodel in 2021 funded by a $16 million capital campaign, launched a street-level Outreach Team in 2023, and in 2024 alone logged 18,161 case management contacts, assisted 780 individuals in obtaining identification documents, and helped 283 clients secure housing.

5× · 2020–2024

Funded

$5.3M

Granted in total

30%

Peak share of budget

-1%

Their revenue since

FRIENDS OF TSAD KADIMA

Funded once

A catalytic bet on rare-reach work

In 2023, the Foundation made a single $29,000 grant to Friends of Tsad Kadima, an amount that represented as much as 39% of the organization's budget that year, supporting its volunteer-driven U.S. fundraising for conductive education programs serving children and young adults with motor disorders in Israel. Since that grant, the organization's revenue has grown 6% in total, and net assets have nearly doubled to 1.9x their prior level, even as recurring deficits point to ongoing structural fundraising pressure.

once (2023)

Funded

$29k

Granted in total

39%

Peak share of budget

+76%

Their revenue since

How this is measured

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.

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.

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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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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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

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

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

Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

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…

Environment

Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education

Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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Downtown Oklahoma City Inc

The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.

Community Improvement

La Luz Organization Inc

La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.

Human Services

Oklahoma Community Service Commission Inc

The mission of the oklahoma community service commission is to engage oklahomans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based service which supports americorps programs in oklahoma communities. services may include assisting with…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Wallace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

454 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. 454 of the 554 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

110

Early backer (in before they grew)

447/454

Grantees still filing

316/454

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$35,028,487Other$49,592,209Education$22,783,047Human Services$22,308,152Health$19,531,803Housing & Shelter$16,961,459Arts & Culture$8,178,260

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

51 internal · 5 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

The City of Tulsa and Reed Community Foundation partnered to revitalize the Ben Hill Community Center, with the City providing exterior repairs and the Foundation funding interior repairs and operating programming at the facility. It is one of 51 direct ties among 81 of its grantees, who also cluster around 5 shared regional anchors.

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

150

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations; shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme42 shown · 30 ties

grantee external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations, or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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explicit Affiliation
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explicit Joint program
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explicit Joint program

Anchors several grantees share

6 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 99Affiliation 48Coalition 31Funding 13Referral network 6Shared facility 1Collaboration 1Fiscal sponsorship 1Merger / affiliation 1

How this is measured

Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.

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.

George Kaiser Family FoundationOK233× affinity143 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Flint Family Foundation

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 Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

82get no government money at all

74report 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.

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