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Margaret Vivian Bilby Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OCPA) | $30,000 |
| TEEM (THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC) | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| BETHANY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SHILOH SUMMER CAMP INC | $5,000 |
| REGIONAL (OKC) FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT (BIRTH CHOICE OF OKC) | $5,000 |
| FOSTERING HOPE | $5,000 |
| CROSSOVER PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER EDMOND | $5,000 |
| GOSPEL OF LIFE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL OK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +53%
- TCThe Children's Center Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +27%
- FHFOSTERING HOPE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
- KOKIPP OKC COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TRTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC (MISSION ACADEMY)one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
Establish, maintain, and conduct a school for the instruction and training of youth.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…
To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.
Trinity legal clinic of oklahoma inc is an oklahoma not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to answer god's call to seek justice for the poor. in an effort to address the overwhelming need for legal assistance to the poor, trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SHILOH SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of the Inner City Inc ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS 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: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Bowen Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Love Meyer Family Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · American Fidelity 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 Margaret Vivian Bilby Foundation 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.
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% 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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