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Tulsa Economic Development Corporation

Tbdc was founded in 1979 as Tulsa Economic Development Corporation, an organization charged with promoting and sustaining small business growth in tulsa.

$41k
Granted FY2022
2
Itemized grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$25k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 614
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$42M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Tulsa Economic Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEmploymentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$25k100%
FY2021614$51M100%
FY202072$5.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Human Services$33MPublic Safety & Disaster$14MHealth$4.8MFood & Nutrition$2.6MEmployment$779kArts & Culture$465kInternational$300kCommunity Improvement$165kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 47 grantees
All grantees of Tulsa Economic Development Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$829,60511%
Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc$700,00016%
Emergency Infant Services Inc$459,515112%
Salvation Army$375,0001n/a
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc$353,60011%
Gatesway Foundation Inc$250,00012%
Tulsa Dream Center Inc$250,00017%
Food on the Move Inc$225,00015%
Broken Arrow Economic Development Corporation$155,310125%
Hobby Lobby Stores Inc Medical & Dental Plan Trust$150,00010%
New Workforce Directions Inc$150,00013%
Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children Inc$150,00011%
Hospice of Green Country Inc$145,80014%
Life Senior Services Inc$144,00011%
Counseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma Inc$125,00011%
12 & 12 Inc$125,00011%
Tulsa Day Center Inc$125,00012%
Newview Oklahoma Inc$102,00010%
Iron Gate Inc$100,00014%
Growing Together Inc$98,38513%
Indian Nations Council Boy Scouts of America$75,00011%
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc$75,00011%
Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust$75,00013%
South Peoria Neighborhood Connection Foundation$68,37418%
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$66,00012%
Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc$50,00015%
Owasso Community Resources Inc$50,00013%
Met Cares Foundation Inc$45,0001n/a
Oklahoma Performing Arts Inc$40,000146%
Tulsa Boys' Home Inc$40,00011%
Tulsa Garden Center$39,14816%
Tulsa Historical Society$35,00014%
Tulsa Air & Space Museum Inc$35,00013%
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network$32,15011%
Oklahoma Center of Empowerment Inc$30,0001n/a
Education and Recreation Inc$27,50014%
Global Gardens Incorporated$25,00013%
Prison Discipleship Inc$25,000117%
Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Networ$25,00018%
Tulsa Glass Blowing Studio Inc$20,00014%
Tulsa Foundation for Architecture$15,00019%
Tulsa Press Club & Benevolent Association$15,000143%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Oklahoma$15,0001n/a
Greenwood Cultural Center Inc$15,00012%
Connected Kids Inc$15,00015%
Foundation for Tulsas Future$10,00010%
Oklahoma Heart Gallery Inc$10,000121%

Plus 640 recipients with no EIN on record ($50M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tulsa Economic Development Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc: $829,605 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $700,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $459,515 over 1y, 12% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc: $353,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGatesway Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTulsa Dream Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetFood on the Move Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBroken Arrow Economic Development Corporation: $155,310 over 1y, 25% of budgetHobby Lobby Stores Inc Medical & Dental Plan Trust: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Workforce Directions Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOklahoma Baptist Homes for Children Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHospice of Green Country Inc: $145,800 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLife Senior Services Inc: $144,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCounseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget12 & 12 Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTulsa Day Center Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNewview Oklahoma Inc: $102,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIron Gate Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGrowing Together Inc: $98,385 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetIndian Nations Council Boy Scouts of America: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTulsa Children's Museum Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTulsa Performing Arts Center Trust: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSouth Peoria Neighborhood Connection Foundation: $68,374 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTulsa Ballet Theatre Inc: $66,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetOwasso Community Resources Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOklahoma Performing Arts Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTulsa Boys' Home Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Garden Center: $39,148 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTulsa Historical Society: $35,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTulsa Air & Space Museum Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $32,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEducation and Recreation Inc: $27,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPrison Discipleship Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTulsa Cornerstone Assistance Networ: $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTulsa Glass Blowing Studio Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTulsa Foundation for Architecture: $15,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTulsa Press Club & Benevolent Association: $15,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetGreenwood Cultural Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetConnected Kids Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFoundation for Tulsas Future: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOklahoma Heart Gallery Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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 Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK64.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Flint 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 Tulsa Economic Development Corporation

How much does Tulsa Economic Development Corporation give?
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $25,000, out of $41,045 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 614 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Tulsa Economic Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Human Services (59%), Public Safety & Disaster (24%), Health (9%).
Who are Tulsa Economic Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc ($830k), Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ($700k), Emergency Infant Services Inc ($460k).
Does Tulsa Economic Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tulsa Economic Development Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation.
Where is Tulsa Economic Development Corporation based?
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation 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 687 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $170k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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