The William K. Warren Foundation

Name

The William K. Warren Foundation

Legal name

The William K. Warren Foundation

Website

https://williamkwarrenfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1945

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Philanthropic Foundation

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB), Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL), Family Offices & Philanthropic Advisors (Grantmaking) (BPAGAKAD)

Keywords

• Grant-making foundation
• Philanthropic giving
• Medical research funding
• Healthcare services
• Community development grants

Headquarters

HQ city

Tulsa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The William K. Warren Foundation is a private charitable foundation established in 1945 that provides grant funding to non-profit organizations, primarily in the Tulsa, Oklahoma and northeast Oklahoma region. The Foundation focuses its giving across five areas: Medical Research, Health Care Services, Health Education, Catholic Initiatives, and Community. It also directly operates the Saint Francis Health System, the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR), The William K. Warren Medical Research Center, and other community programs, having donated over $736 million since inception.

Product overview

The William K. Warren Foundation is a philanthropy organization (not a product company) that provides grant funding and operates healthcare facilities and research institutions. The Foundation's primary activities include operating Saint Francis Health System (including Saint Francis Hospital, Warren Clinic, and multiple regional hospitals), funding the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) for mental illness research, supporting the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery in partnership with Vanderbilt University, providing medical scholarships at Oklahoma universities, and supporting community programs like Saint Francis Tulsa Tough cycling event and the Warren Tree Farm. The Foundation has donated over $736 million since inception.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Established Saint Francis Hospital in 1960 and Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital in 1989, which evolved into the Saint Francis Health System - Oklahoma's largest healthcare provider
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Tulsa Community Foundation: Community foundation serving the same Tulsa/northeast Oklahoma geography as the Warren Foundation, with overlapping focus areas in health, education, and community development.
• Inasmuch Foundation: Oklahoma-based private foundation also focused on health, education, and community in the same regional footprint — directly comparable mission and grantmaking posture.
• George Kaiser Family Foundation: Tulsa-based private foundation with comparable scope (health, education, community) and similar family-led stewardship model; one of the closest geographic and mission-aligned peers to the Warren Foundation.
• Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies: Oklahoma-headquartered family philanthropy with overlapping focus on community, education, and Jewish/community initiatives; comparable family-led structure and regional concentration.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: National health-focused philanthropy with overlapping interests in healthcare access, mental health, and physician workforce — comparable mission in health but at much larger national scale.
• Kresge Foundation: National foundation funding health, education, and community development with comparable multi-sector grantmaking strategy, though at substantially larger scale and broader geography.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Largest U.S. private foundation with overlapping health, medical research, and community development priorities; operates at vastly greater scale but shares a philanthropic-grantmaking model.
• Bezos Day One Fund: Large-scale private family philanthropy funding homelessness and education; comparable only in family-led structure and large-scale grant deployment rather than specific mission overlap.

Regional players

• M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust: Pacific Northwest-based private foundation funding health research, education, and community — similar evergreen-style grantmaking but operating in a different geography.

Others

• St. Francis Health System (comparator): Wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation but useful as a peer benchmark for comparable mid-size regional health systems; included as an ecosystem comparator rather than competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments8 records

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