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Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc

Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,444,192 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION ($450,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$412k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$278k
17/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to recruit, train and provide assistance to volunteers (attorneys and non-attorneys) representing children in all stages of child abuse and neglect cases.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. 287 children received pro bono legal representation by volunteer and staff attorneys. TLC staff support included court hearing reminders, court hearing coverage for volunteers, mentoring volunteers, and ongoing training on specialized legal issues. TLC provided its annual training and several lunch and learn events throughout the year. TLC initiated its externship partnership with the University of Tulsa College of Law.

    $366,464 spent$90,152 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $366,464.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($357k) Expenses 100 ($338k) Net assets 100 ($230k)2018 Revenue 98 ($351k) Expenses 116 ($391k) Net assets 83 ($190k)2019 Revenue 118 ($419k) Expenses 120 ($406k) Net assets 88 ($203k)2020 Revenue 104 ($371k) Expenses 93 ($314k) Net assets 113 ($260k)2021 Revenue 119 ($424k) Expenses 101 ($342k) Net assets 149 ($342k)2022 Revenue 104 ($371k) Expenses 112 ($377k) Net assets 146 ($336k)2023 Revenue 151 ($538k) Expenses 135 ($456k) Net assets 182 ($418k)2024 Revenue 115 ($412k) Expenses 145 ($491k) Net assets 121 ($278k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (145)Net assets (121)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $539k to $278k (−48%).

$230k
$190k
$203k
$260k
$348k
$487k
$539k
$278k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
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2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 25% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,975 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
−$40k
’18
$13k
’19
$57k
’20
$82k
’21
−$6k
’22
$82k
’23
−$79k
’24
5.4
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1718232221191817
Joined·+6+8+2+3+3+5+8
No longer listed·5334569
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $127k → $300k.

2 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Tulsa Lawyers for Children 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

Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc.

31%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 40% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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

41% of Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

KS
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.

State$9k
Top programs
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$9k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Tulsa Lawyers for Children 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc?
Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,444,192 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION ($450,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,444,192 in grants to Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tulsa Lawyers for Children Inc?
OKLAHOMA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tulsa Lawyers for Children 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 25 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing