Oklahoma · Private foundation
Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $712,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $1.8M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $2.6M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.9M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $1.1M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.2M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Tulsa | $1,975,620 | 5 | 4% |
| Okmulgee County Humane Society | $1,286,413 | 6 | 78% |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $773,800 | 6 | 0% |
| The Academies of Oklahoma Inc | $406,659 | 2 | 4% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $316,320 | 6 | 0% |
| Okmulgee Area Development Corp | $308,000 | 6 | 88% |
| Okmulgee County Family Resource Ctr | $142,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Tulsa Area United Way | $127,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Landmark for All Generations Inc | $94,530 | 4 | 62% |
| A New Leaf Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · One Gas Foundation Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The HA & Mary K Chapman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc give?
- Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $1,906,619 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (26%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Tulsa ($2.0M), Okmulgee County Humane Society ($1.3M), Oklahoma State University Foundation ($774k).
- Does Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc, Tulsa Community Foundation.
- Where is Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc based?
- Sam Viersen Family Foundation Inc is based in OK.
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