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Margery Mayo Bird Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$168k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
12
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$8,400
Largest grant, FY2018
$77,280
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Margery Mayo Bird Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201812$168k0%
FY201712$8.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$5.5MArts & Culture$1.7MReligion$816kEnvironment$82kHealth$76k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Tulsa$3,753,54521%
Holland Hall$1,631,9782n/a
First Presbyterian Church$815,9882n/a
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$489,595210%
Tulsa Opera Inc$407,997219%
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc$244,79529%
Tulsa Library Trust$81,59826%
Tulsa Historical Society$81,598211%
Up With Trees Inc$81,59828%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($566k), not named here.

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.

The Sneed Foundation IncOK20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sneed Foundation Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · James D & Cathryn M Moore Foundation · The Barnett Family Foundation Inc Ms Billie Barnett · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow 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.

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About Margery Mayo Bird Foundation

How much does Margery Mayo Bird Foundation give?
Margery Mayo Bird Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $168,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Margery Mayo Bird Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (67%), Arts & Culture (21%), Religion (10%).
Who are Margery Mayo Bird Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: The University of Tulsa ($3.8M), Holland Hall ($1.6M), First Presbyterian Church ($816k).
Does Margery Mayo Bird Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margery Mayo Bird Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Margery Mayo Bird Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sneed Foundation Inc, The Gelvin Foundation, The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Margery Mayo Bird Foundation based?
Margery Mayo Bird Foundation 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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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