· Private foundation
Ed Darby Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GAINING GROUND | $50,000 |
| OPSRC-TEACHING LEADING INST | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| MONROE DEMONSTRATION ACADEMY | $21,836 |
| SWAT MEET INC | $20,000 |
| YOUTH AT HEART | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Youth At Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Modus Inc ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ed Darby Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed Darby Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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