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Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc

Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,883 to it, the largest being George Kaiser Family Foundation ($219,102). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$961k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$730k
Net assets
$1.6M
9/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc does

Mission

The Tulsa Literary Coalition strives to foster the love of reading and books and to bridge cultural, ethnic, and religious divides through literature.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025 Tulsa Literary Coalition hosted ninety-five events and partnered with other organizations for an additional sixty-four events. Of those, 135 events (85%) were free to attend and fifty-eight featured local authors. Events were in forty-seven different venues across Tulsa. In total, we saw over 17,000 event guests. The biggest events of the year included visits with Bonnie Garmus, Grady Hendrix, Tim Blake Nelson, Joy Harjo, Matthew McConaughey, who presented to the sold-out PAC Chapman theater, and our annual Adult Book Fair, which had over 1,400 attendees.One of our goals for 2025 was to increase the audience size of events held in the store. We achieved this with local authors such as Meg Myers Morgan, Michelle Bias, Alex Poppe, Jennifer Clark, and Paloma Angelica Lopez, as well as visiting authors including Scott Latta, actor Ron Pearlman, and Pulitzer Prize winning Jayne Anne Phillips. The average audience size for author events held in the store increased by 34% in 2025 when compared to 2024.We added fifteen new partnerships in 2025. We facilitated ninety-two book club meetings in the store with a total of 760 attendees and increased book club participation by 17%.We…

    $416,656 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $416,656.

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 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($460k)2018 Revenue 25 ($44k) Expenses 121 ($95k) Net assets 89 ($409k)2019 Revenue 66 ($114k) Expenses 112 ($88k) Net assets 101 ($463k)2020 Revenue 117 ($204k) Expenses 57 ($45k) Net assets 135 ($622k)2021 Revenue 159 ($278k) Expenses 154 ($121k) Net assets 169 ($779k)2022 Revenue 164 ($286k) Expenses 150 ($118k) Net assets 206 ($947k)2023 Revenue 356 ($622k) Expenses 505 ($397k) Net assets 255 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 197 ($344k) Expenses 334 ($262k) Net assets 288 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 551 ($961k) Expenses 707 ($556k) Net assets 338 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (551)Expenses (707)Net assets (338)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+34%).

$460k
$409k
$463k
$630k
$802k
$974k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.8M
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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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

50% of Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$96k
’17
−$51k
’18
$26k
’19
$159k
’20
$157k
’21
$169k
’22
$225k
’23
$82k
’24
$406k
’25
35
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.

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Listed11119101011111110
Joined·+0+2+3+0+2+2+0+3
No longer listed·04201204
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $118k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Literary Coalition 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 Literary Coalition Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

82% 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 Literary Coalition Inc.

30%
largest funder
77%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 55% · 2021 45% · 2022 49% · 2023 45% — 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

50% of Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

79% of Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

NY
MO
KS
NC
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. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Literary Coalition Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve34.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Tulsa Literary Coalition 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 20%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

55%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Magic City Books LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc?
Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,883 to it, the largest being George Kaiser Family Foundation ($219,102). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $729,883 in grants to Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tulsa Literary Coalition Inc?
George Kaiser Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $219,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tulsa Literary Coalition 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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