Oklahoma · Nonprofit
THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC
THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,579,872 to it, the largest being TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ($666,600). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $724k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $344k
What The Tristesse Grief Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the grief center is to provide support to grieving individuals and families through professional conseling services, educational programming, and community collaborations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Group and individual counseling - professional grief counseling and crisis support is provided to children, families, and adults who have experienced significant loss by mental health counselors with advanced training in grief and traumatic loss. Counseling sessions can include music therapy as well as art therapy when indicated. All counseling sessions are provided on a sliding fee scale. Our group counseling sessions include loss-specific groups (child loss, suicide loss, spouse loss, family group)that offer unique benefits related to processing grief with others who have had similar losses and decreasing isolation during the grieving process. All groups are free of charge.
$301,544 spent$151,884 earned by the program49% of program spendingGrief and outreach intervention program - recognizing the environmental challenges and barriers to accessing grief counseling for many in our community, the grief center provides grief counseling and support inside school walls and community agencies through partnerships with community stakeholders. Our healing hearts programming in tulsa public schools and other school districts across the tulsa metropolitan area is provided at no cost to students, families or school districts.
$149,652 spent$600 earned by the program24% of program spendingCommunity engagement and education program - we recognized early on that area therapists and mental health professionals often lacked grief specific training. In response, the grief center provides grief sensitivity training to businesses and community stakeholders and continuing education for licensed professionals who encounter grief and loss in the population they serve.
$93,828 spent$46,714 earned by the program15% of program spendingCamp erin - camp erin supports grieving children, teens, and families through a camp experience that combines grief education and emotional support with fun, interactive activities. Led by grief professionals and caring volunteers, campers are provided a safe environment to explore their grief, learn essential coping skills, and experience community with others who are also grieving. Additional services are offered to support the whole family outside of the camp experience. Two sessions are available, camp erin kids camp is open to children and teens ages 6 -17 across the state who have experienced the death of a significant person. Camp erin family camp , introduced in 2023, is open to families who have experienced a death loss in their family unit. Camp erin and all services related to camp erin are free.
$71,204 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $616,228.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $247k to $682k (+176%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $99k → $259k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 66% · 2019 59% · 2020 51% · 2021 57% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC?
- THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,579,872 to it, the largest being TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ($666,600). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,579,872 in grants to THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC?
- TULSA AREA UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $666,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing