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The 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Children's Shelter & Family Services | $90,000 |
| Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service | $50,000 |
| Ashley Inc | $32,000 |
| Univ of Oklahoma Foundation | $25,000 |
| Ranch Hand Rescue | $15,000 |
| Univ of Oklahoma Foundation | $8,000 |
| Texas Tech Foundation | $7,000 |
| Ardmore Animal Shelter | $4,000 |
| Texas Christian University | $3,000 |
| Panhandle State University | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SOSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $176k · revenue +113%
- AIASHLEY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +34%
- VHValley Hope Association4× · 2021–2024 · $71k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- LHLittle Hill Foundationone grant, 2021 · $29k
- GVGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- OHOAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +81%
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.
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Trusted partners in world-class healthcare. building trust with our patients and with each other.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The howard university was established by an act of congress in 1867. the university is an institution that educates students, develops professionals, conducts research, and serves patients through 12 schools of higher education and an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Hope Association and the most unlike its peers is Ranch Hands Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Hope Association ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARBUCKLE LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Charles B Goddard Foundation Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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