City Of Tulsa Awards $6.5M In COVID-19 Relief Funding To 74 Local Non-Profits

More than 70 local non-profits have been chosen by the City of Tulsa and the Tulsa City Council to receive their share of COVID-19 relief grants.

The grants are for community assistance and recovery initiations spread across 74 different advocacy groups totaling $6.5 million.

More than $1.4 million will go towards food security groups like Iron Gate, Meals on Wheels and Food on the Move. Another $1.3 million is going towards child development, including grants to the Tulsa Dream Center, The Opportunity Project and One Hope Tulsa.

Over $700,000 falls under housing services, it includes grants to the Tulsa Day Center, Lindsey House and Revitalize T-Town.

Nearly 300 thousand is going towards economic development - going to the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce and Kendall Whittier Main Street.

$25,000 has been granted to the Terence Crutcher Foundation under the category of racial equality and economic justice.

According to the city, these grants were paid for using COVID-19 relief funds Tulsa received from the state of Oklahoma last summer to help people impacted by the pandemic.