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TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED

TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED (Oklahoma) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,789 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($484,293). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$766k
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$556k
Net assets
14/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%

Against its field

TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 214 ($292k) Expenses 195 ($270k) Net assets 68 ($39k)2019 Revenue 250 ($341k) Expenses 243 ($335k) Net assets 192 ($110k)2020 Revenue 394 ($538k) Expenses 351 ($485k) Net assets 283 ($162k)2021 Revenue 373 ($508k) Expenses 313 ($433k) Net assets 598 ($343k)2022 Revenue 456 ($622k) Expenses 423 ($584k) Net assets 617 ($354k)2023 Revenue 640 ($872k) Expenses 588 ($813k) Net assets 721 ($413k)2024 Revenue 862 ($1.2M) Expenses 734 ($1.0M) Net assets 1002 ($575k)2025 Revenue 562 ($766k) Expenses 568 ($785k) Net assets 969 ($556k)
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Revenue (562)Expenses (568)Net assets (969)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 42% · 2019 36% · 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% · 2024 37% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
17
$22k
18
$6k
19
$52k
20
$76k
21
$38k
22
$59k
23
$161k
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$19k
25
8.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $9k → $384k.

2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED.

33%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 80% · 2020 45% · 2021 27% · 2022 50% · 2023 44%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

IL
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oklahoma

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED?
TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED (Oklahoma) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,789 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($484,293). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,446,789 in grants to TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED?
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $484,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TULSA DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing