· Private foundation
The Duffy and Tina Oyster Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dallas International Street Church | $100,500 |
| University of North Texas | $40,764 |
| University of North Texas | $31,546 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,423 |
| The National Philanthropic Trust | $30,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $22,286 |
| Karen Dudley Ministries | $11,000 |
| Cause Foundation | $9,000 |
| Baylor University | $8,260 |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $3,000 |
| Booth Western Art Museum | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MD Anderson (Texas Medical Center) | $1,000 |
| Amon Carter Museum | $1,000 |
| Graham Paige Owners Club | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $136k · revenue +24%- KDKAREN DUDLEY MINISTRIES DBA DALLAS INTERNATIONAL STREET CHURCH2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +27%
- SRSKY RANCHES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- JMJP Morgan Donor Advised Fundone grant, 2019 · $52k
- CMChildrens Medical Centerone grant, 2023 · $20k
- HVHomeless Veterans Services Of Dallas Incone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +13%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The purpose of dallas baptist university is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to…
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 77 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds KAREN DUDLEY MINISTRIES DBA DALLAS INTERNATIONAL STREET CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Homeless Veterans Services Of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds SKY RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Message Inc ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Duffy and Tina Oyster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Duffy and Tina Oyster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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