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Paul W Sisemore Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Paul W Sisemore Charitable Foundation

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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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$80kEducation$77kRecreation & Sports$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kCrime & Legal$2kYouth Development$780Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$15,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pokes With A Purpose$25,000
Tulsa Boys Home$15,200
Folds of Honor$10,000
Sand Springs Education Foundation$5,000
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 (FY20–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Clarehouse: $10k → 15%Clarehouse: $5k → 15%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$123k · 4 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$123k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+22%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TULSA BOYS' HOME INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue -25%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +48%
  • Clarehouse Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • DP
    DEWAR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RF
    Rock Fire Department
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%
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
Tulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund

Provide relief to family members due to death, injury, or illness.

Philanthropy
2
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
3
Northwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation Inc and Alumni Association

To provide support to NWOSU and scholarships to NWOSU students

Education
4
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…

Arts & Culture
5
Folds of Honor Oklahoma City Chapter

To fund educational scholarships for the dependents of fallen and disabled active duty military service members

Education
6
Victory Family School

education

Education
7
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Foundation Inc

The purpose of the USAO Foundation is to support the mission of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma.

Education
8
Oklahoma Educational Memorial Trust Fdn

Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…

Education
9
Oklahoma Wesleyan University

As a christian university of the wesleyan church, oklahoma wesleyan university models a way of thought, a way of life, and a way of faith. it is a place of serious study, honest questions, and critical engagement, all in the context of a…

Education
10
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education
11
Healthy Schools Oklahoma Inc

Provide instruction for children in schools related to healthy lifestyle choices.

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12
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Folds of Honor Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rock Fire Department. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $65,400 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' HOME INCClarehouse Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesClarehouse IncFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR …The Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowmen…SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION I: $5,000 · EducationSAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDAT…THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · EducationTulsa Girls Art School: $11,000 · OtherTulsa Girls Art …DEWAR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherDEWAR PUBLIC SCH…Individual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant…VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $2,200 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AM…Bit By Bit: $1,800 · OtherBit By BitOsage County Sheriff's Office: $1,600 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherPokes With A Purpose Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPokes With A P…Rock Fire Department: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYOUNG LIFE: $500 · Youth DevelopmentTULSA STATE FAIR JUNIOR LIVESTOCK AUCTION CORPORATION: $280 · Youth Development
Human Services$80,400Education$54,500Other$30,100Recreation & Sports$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Youth Development$780

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $65,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPokes With A Purpose Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClarehouse Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRock Fire Department: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION I: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA STATE FAIR JUNIOR LIVESTOCK AUCTION CORPORATION: $280 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Tulsa Community Found…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tulsa Community FoundationOK12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Paul W Sisemore Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul W Sisemore Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 18 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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