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Jamie and Darton Zink Foundation at a glance

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Jamie and Darton Zink Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$345kEducation$311kYouth Development$75kPhilanthropy$29kArts & Culture$17kScience & Tech$16kHealth$15kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$674k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BSA$7,000
BROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOLS FDN$2,750
ELIOT ELEMENTARY FDN$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $3k → 15%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $3k → 15%FRIENDS OF BROKEN ARROW: $2k → 15%FRIENDS OF BROKEN ARROW: $2k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $3k → 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$406k · 11 repeat orgs$406k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
25

Total granted

$406k
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+58%

Still filing today

55%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LC
    Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $253k · revenue +142%
  • OS
    Oklahoma State University Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +46%
  • COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PW
    Pokes With A Purpose Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $301k · revenue +577% · 32% of their budget
  • SF
    Sportsman for Charity Club
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • MH
    Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahomagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +173%
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
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Tulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund

Provide relief to family members due to death, injury, or illness.

Philanthropy
3
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools

The Foundation for Tulsa Schools was established to build a stronger community through the support of Tulsa Public Schools.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Pi Beta Phi Foundation of Okc
Philanthropy
7
Tulsa Spca

The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.

Animals
8
Project Elf Inc

Donation of clothes and needs to tulsa area children

Human Services
9
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
10
Tulsa Police Foundation Inc

Raise awareness and funds for needs of the Tulsa Police Department that will benefit officers and citizens in the city of Tulsa. A joint effort between law enforcement and the citizens of Tulsa to enhance the safety and security of each.

Crime & Legal
11
Tulsa Press Club Foundation Inc

Organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, specifically for the sole benefit of Tulsa Press Club Benevolent Association, Inc. to aid in carrying out the mission to promote the highest standards of journalism and to…

Community Improvement
12
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Launch Outreach. 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

21 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. 21 of the 40 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pokes With A Purpose Inc: $301,000 · Recreation & SportsPokes With A Purpose IncTulsa Great Raft Race Inc: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation: $252,700 · EducationLambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundat…+4 more: $18,000 · Education+4 moreINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $72,000 · OtherINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BO…GAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherGAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATIONSportsman for Charity Club: $15,000 · OtherSportsman for Charity Clu…PHILBROOK MUSEUM: $12,000 · OtherPHILBROOK MUSEUMTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherLITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM: $10,000 · OtherINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BSA: $7,000 · OtherPATRIOTS IN THE PARK: $6,500 · Other+14 more: $28,840 · Other+14 moreTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION I: $7,750 · Philanthropy+1 more: $559 · PhilanthropyMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $15,000 · HealthBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Infant Services Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BROKEN ARROW INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $1,250 · Food & Nutrition
Recreation & Sports$321,000Education$270,700Other$191,340Philanthropy$33,309Health$15,000Human Services$12,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,250

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 budgetPokes With A Purpose Inc: $301,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetLambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation: $252,700 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION I: $7,750 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRIVER PARKS AUTHORITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BROKEN ARROW INC: $3,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUNCH OUTREACH: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa: $150 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.

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 Found…The Gelvin FoundationZink Family FoundationGrace & Franklin Bern…George Kaiser Family …Coretz Family Foundat…Maxine and Jack Zarro…The Anne and Henry Za…Common Bond FoundationKetchum Charitable Fo…The Oxley FoundationFlint Family Foundati…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Zink Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Coretz Family Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Common Bond Foundation · Ketchum Charitable Foundation Inc · The Oxley Foundation · Flint Family 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 Jamie and Darton Zink Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jamie and Darton Zink Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: 8% of income from government
  • Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Jamie and Darton Zink Foundation 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 40 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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