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Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$717k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY$20,000
CROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES$1,000
RISE PROGRAM INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $2k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $2k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $20k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $2k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $2k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $2k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$191k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+105%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • B1
    Branch 15 Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +588%
  • WS
    WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +823%
  • RP
    RISE PROGRAM INC (RE-ENTRY INVESTMENT/STUDENT ED)
    6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER REHAB
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -4%
  • PJ
    POETIC JUSTICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +105%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Return to Hope Inc

To enhance the quality of life for justice-involved women in Tulsa, OK by removing systemic and mental barriers to build self-determination and transformation. Focus on creating upward mobility through opportunities centered in racial…

Human Services
2
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
3
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc

Oklahomans for criminal justice reform, inc ("ocjr"), an oklahoma not-for- profit corporation, was established to promote awareness and educate the cizizens and leadership of oklahoma on problems and issues facing the oklahoma corrections…

Crime & Legal
4
Women in Safe Home Inc Dba Wish

An organization that provides a safe place for victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and stalking as they make plans and arrangements to recover from trauma and begin new lives.

Human Services
5
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Central Oklahoma Chapter
Civil Rights
6
Still She Rises Inc

Legal representation and advocacy on behalf of mother and caregivers in Tulsa County facing criminal or misdemeanor charges, civil court and some juvenile cases.

Crime & Legal
7
Casa of Western Oklahoma Casa of Western Oklahoma

The organization's mission is to supervise volunteers primarily to serve as court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children and support the needs of the children served.

Human Services
8
Possibilities Inc

Possibilities values-driven transformative experiences train diverse people in methods of community engagement to lead, innovate, and facilitate change. in short, possibilities grows local capacity to work for positive change. the building…

Community Improvement
9
Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice

Mission: to inspire and equip oklahomans to overcome bias, bigotry, and oppression. vision: in our generation, oklahoma is a more inclusive, just, and hospitable state, for all.

Religion
10
Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services
11
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Human Services
12
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc

To be a partner in the community making equal justice for all a reality.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rise Program Inc (Re-Entry Investment/Student Ed). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKC: $28,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKCCROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherCROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCHBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC: $6,000 · OtherBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER REHAB: $5,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER REHABPOETIC JUSTIC INCORPORATED: $3,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC: $3,500 · Other+5 more: $7,000 · Other+5 moreBranch 15 Inc: $47,000 · Housing & ShelterBranch 15 IncWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS…STAND IN THE GAP INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesSTAND IN THE GAP IN…RISE PROGRAM INC (RE-ENTRY INVESTMENT/STUDENT ED): $15,500 · EducationPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $7,500 · Crime & LegalCASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalPOETIC JUSTICE INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalOKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & LegalREMERGE INC: $500 · Crime & LegalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$77,500Housing & Shelter$47,000Human Services$36,000Education$15,500Crime & Legal$13,500Youth Development$11,000Philanthropy$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetBECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

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…Oklahoma City Communi…Inasmuch FoundationServant FoundationBowen FoundationThe Merrick FoundationSarkeys FoundationTulsa Community Found…Love Meyer Family Fou…American Fidelity Fou…Communities Foundatio…McLaughlin Family Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Remerge Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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