· Private foundation
Ed Darby Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $469k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $263k
- $250k+1 grant · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR TULSA SCHOOLS | $292,455 |
| GAINING GROUND | $82,600 |
| THE OPPORTUNITY PROJECT | $80,000 |
| OPSRC-TEACHING LEADING INST | $50,000 |
| GAINING GROUND | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL GARDENS | $49,200 |
| FOOD ON THE MOVE | $45,100 |
| BIKE CLUBHUMBLE SONS BIKE COMPANY | $40,300 |
| CLARK YOUTH THEATRE | $37,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MONROE DEMONSTRATION ACADEMY | $21,836 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $20,000 |
| SWAT MEET INC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $530k · revenue +4%- GGGAINING GROUND CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +108% · 35% of their budget
Food on the Move Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +20%
Funded once
THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSAone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -13%
CITY YEAR INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +4%- FOFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +367%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.
The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Kipp tulsa prepares students from educationally under-served neighborhoods in tulsa, ok with the academic, character and life skills necessary for success in college and the competitive world beyond.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.
Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.
Empowered by art, tulsa girls overcome barriers and discover life-changing purpose and possibilities.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Dream Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swat Meet Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Food on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HUMBLE SONS BIKE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United ↗
- Who funds TULSA DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Clark Youth Theatre Incorporated ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SWAT MEET INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds Youth At Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Modus Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Hille Family Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ed Darby Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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