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Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust

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.

$32k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$717k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving4$32k0%
FY20235$27k0%
FY202212$19k8%
FY202112$24k33%
FY202012$22k42%
FY20199$26k44%
FY20187$40k14%
FY20177$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$52kReligion$35kHuman Services$33kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$16kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$12kYouth Development$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Branch 15 Inc$47,00063%
Wings Special Needs Community Inc$27,50070%
Crossings Community Church$25,0003n/a
Rise Program Inc (Re-Entry Investment/Student Ed)$15,50062%
Stand in the Gap Inc$8,50060%
Prison Fellowship Ministries$7,50050%
Teen Recovery Solutions Inc$6,00060%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County Inc$6,00050%
Positive Tomorrows Inc$5,00020%
Casa of Oklahoma County Inc$4,00020%
The Education and Employment Ministry Inc$3,50040%
Oklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum$2,00020%
Oklahoma Womens Coalition Inc$2,00021%
Friends of the Mansion Inc$1,00010%
Poetic Justice Inc$1,0001n/a
Raising the Standard Ministries$1,0001n/a
RACE Dance Company$1,00011%
Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc$50010%
Remerge Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBranch 15 Inc: $47,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWings Special Needs Community Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRise Program Inc (Re-Entry Investment/Student Ed): $15,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetStand in the Gap Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPrison Fellowship Ministries: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Recovery Solutions Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPositive Tomorrows Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCasa of Oklahoma County Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Education and Employment Ministry Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOklahoma City Museum of Art Inc Fka Oklahoma City Art Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Womens Coalition Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Mansion Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRACE Dance Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRemerge Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 16.

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.

El and Thelma Gaylord FoundationOK34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Servant Foundation · Bowen Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Love Meyer Family Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · McLaughlin 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 Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust

How much does Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust give?
Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust reported 4 grants totaling $32,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (25%), Religion (17%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Branch 15 Inc ($47k), Wings Special Needs Community Inc ($28k), Crossings Community Church ($25k).
Does Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Inasmuch Foundation.
Where is Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust based?
Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust 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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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