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Ed Darby Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
46
Grants FY2024
46
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$292,455
Organizations funded a year
5 to 46
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Ed Darby Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving43$1.1M21%
FY202346$1.1M37%
FY202229$730k21%
FY202133$774k24%
FY202033$827k39%
FY201926$648k65%
FY201814$245k86%
FY20175$82kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MYouth Development$1.1MFood & Nutrition$825kArts & Culture$418kHuman Services$287kCommunity Improvement$161kPublic Benefit$65kPhilanthropy$58kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ed Darby Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $905,701 over 5y, 16% of budgetCommunity Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc: $530,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGaining Ground Corporation: $454,942 over 7y, 35% of budgetFood on the Move Inc: $295,100 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTulsa Children's Museum Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $230,511 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetHumble Sons Bike Company: $210,600 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetCommunity Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTulsa Dream Center Inc: $85,100 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: $81,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetStreet School Inc: $68,488 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Debate League Incorporated: $65,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetClark Youth Theatre Incorporated: $61,408 over 2y, 12% of budgetTulsa Area United Way: $58,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hope Oklahoma Inc: $48,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwat Meet Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTulsa Air & Space Museum Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDomestic Violence Intervention Services: $31,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYouth At Heart Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe San Miguel School of Tulsa: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCity Year Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $23,335 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of American Song Archives Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetModus Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTulsa Hub Syndicate: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma Inc: $13,626 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLilyfield Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDrexel Academy Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMartha's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTulsa SPCA: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Fire Green Country Inc: $145 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK48.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Ed Darby Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ed Darby Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ed Darby Foundation Inc

How much does Ed Darby Foundation Inc give?
Ed Darby Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $1,095,512 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ed Darby Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Youth Development (20%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Ed Darby Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ($906k), Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc ($530k), Gaining Ground Corporation ($455k).
Does Ed Darby Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ed Darby Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ed Darby Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation.
Where is Ed Darby Foundation Inc based?
Ed Darby Foundation Inc is based in OK.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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