· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| CROSSINGS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| RISE PROGRAM INC | $1,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- B1Branch 15 Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +588%
- WSWINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +823%
- RPRISE PROGRAM INC (RE-ENTRY INVESTMENT/STUDENT ED)6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +334%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER REHABone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PJPOETIC JUSTICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +105%
- RTRAISING THE STANDARD MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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…
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.
Legal representation and advocacy on behalf of mother and caregivers in Tulsa County facing criminal or misdemeanor charges, civil court and some juvenile cases.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To be a partner in the community making equal justice for all a reality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc and 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.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Branch 15 Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds RISE PROGRAM INC (RE-ENTRY INVESTMENT/STUDENT ED) ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Womens Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds POETIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds RACE Dance Company ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REMERGE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joe & Sue Esco Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.