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Ed Darby Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$292k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 46 grants

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
$10,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 14%COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $50k → 15%MODUS: $5k → 15%MODUS: $5k → 15%MODUS: $5k → 15%MODUS: $5k → 15%DVIS: $11k → 15%DVIS: $10k → 15%DVIS: $10k → 15%LILYFIELD: $5k → 15%LILYFIELD: $5k → 15%MARTHA'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE: $20k → 15%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE: $18k → 15%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE: $15k → 15%TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE: $12k → 15%YOUTH AT HEART: $20k → 15%YOUTH AT HEART: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 52 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
26

Total granted

$5.3M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

48%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $530k · revenue +4%
  • GG
    GAINING GROUND CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +108% · 35% of their budget
  • Food on the Move Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • THE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -13%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INCgraduated
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

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.

Education
2
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

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.

Education
3
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
4
Kipp Tulsa Academy College Prep Inc

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.

Education
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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6
Tulsa Casa Inc

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.

Civil Rights
7
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children

To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.

Crime & Legal
8
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

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.

Community Improvement
10
Tulsa Girls Art School Project Inc

Empowered by art, tulsa girls overcome barriers and discover life-changing purpose and possibilities.

Arts & Culture
11
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
12
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tulsa Dream Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $208,800 · OtherTHE OPPORTUNITY PROJECTOPSRC-TEACHING LEADING INST: $175,000 · OtherOPSRC-TEACHING LEADING INSTMONROE DEMONSTRATION ACADEMY: $153,763 · OtherMONROE DEMONSTRATION ACADEMYCASCIA HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherCASCIA HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $146,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITY LEARNING ACADEMY: $131,488 · OtherUNITY LEARNING ACADEMYJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY: $101,215 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $85,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $81,500 · OtherTULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $65,976 · Other+51 more: $603,511 · Other+51 moreThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $905,701 · EducationThe Foundation for Tulsa Schoo…GAINING GROUND CORPORATION: $454,942 · EducationGAINING GROUND CORPORATIONSTREET SCHOOL INC: $68,488 · Education+3 more: $70,835 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $530,100 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD B…Food on the Move Inc: $295,100 · Food & NutritionFood on the Move…Global Gardens Incorporated: $230,511 · Youth DevelopmentGlobal Garde…HUMBLE SONS BIKE COMPANY: $210,600 · Youth DevelopmentHUMBLE SONS …TULSA DREAM CENTER INC: $85,100 · Youth DevelopmentTULSA DREAM …NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC: $48,750 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HOPE OKL…+1 more: $13,626 · Youth DevelopmentTULSA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureClark Youth Theatre Incorporated: $61,408 · Arts & CultureSWAT MEET INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United: $100,000 · Human ServicesTULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $65,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $31,000 · Human ServicesYouth At Heart Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesModus Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesLILYFIELD INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF TULSA: $30,000 · Religion
Other$1,902,803Education$1,499,966Food & Nutrition$825,200Youth Development$588,587Arts & Culture$406,408Human Services$261,000Religion$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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