How much does Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust give?

Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust reported 37 grants totaling $168,402 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Religion (24%), Crime & Legal (7%).

Who are Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc ($56k), Domestic Violence Intervention Services ($48k), Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ($37k).

Does Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust based?

Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust is based in OK.

Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust

Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation, Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$42k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$406kReligion$209kCrime & Legal$62kFood & Nutrition$58kEnvironment$47kHealth$27kHousing & Shelter$27kEducation$18kOther$0

02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k35 grants · $85k
$10k–50k2 grants · $83k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE SALVATION ARMY - TULSA	$41,663
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF TULSA	$41,663
DVIS	$7,500
THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL CHALLENGES	$6,000
CLAREHOUSE	$5,000
PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA	$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS	$5,000
THE PARK CHURCH OF CHRIST	$4,000
LILYFIELD INC	$4,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA	$4,000
TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN	$3,000
METRO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY	$3,000
FLOURISH HOMES INC	$3,000
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES	$3,000
IRON GATE	$3,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$837k · 38 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$837k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+33%

Still filing today

79%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationReligionOther

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

THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +91%
DV
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES
5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +17%
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +10%

Funded once

TC
THE CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $5k
OM
OKLAHOMA METHODIST MANORTRINITY WOODS
one grant, 2021 · $4k
AH
American Heart Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +33%

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.

Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.

Housing & Shelter

Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment

Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

—

Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

—

Tulsa Volunteers of America Senior Housing Inc

Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.

—

Transitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc

Assist in preparing homeless and near homeless women in the skills to care for their children and enable them to move toward self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter

Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…

Health

Tulsa Casa Inc

Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights

Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter

Independent Opportunties Inc of Oklahoma

Provide the highest quality residential services to people with developmental disabilities. a major part of the mission is to provide opportunities to these individuals based upon their right to a normal daily routine. specifically, it is…

Unclassified

La Luz Organization Inc

La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Spring Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

36 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. 36 of the 51 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

22/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$558,906Human Services$190,214Food & Nutrition$50,250Health$32,366Education$17,450Housing & Shelter$10,500Religion$7,850

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

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.

The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK50.4× affinity22 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 · Tulsa Community Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Charles W Harris Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Flint Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc

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 Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul L Sisk and Helen I Sisk Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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