· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bilby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bilby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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