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Sand Springs Home

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$91kReligion$30kHuman Services$22kCommunity Improvement$19kHousing & Shelter$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kArts & Culture$4kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,910
Median grant
1
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$10,000
SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$4,000
SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY SVCS$3,300
SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$2,910
NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC$1,000
SAND SPRING LODGE NO 475$250
ROTARY CLUB OF SAND SPRINGS$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ROCK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 14%HILL SPRINGS CHURCH: $30k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $6k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 15%ROCK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 15%SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 15%SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 15%SOTO: $4k → 15%SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY SVCS: $3k → 15%SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 15%SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY SVCS: $3k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3k → 15%SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY SVCS: $3k → 15%SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY SVCS: $2k → 15%SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 15%SAND SPRINGS COMMUNITY SVCS: $2k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMER: $2k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2k → 15%SAND SPRING EDUCATION FOUND: $2k → 15%SAND SPRING EDUCATION FOUND: $2k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMER: $2k → 15%CPHS SENIOR CELEBRATION: $2k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 15%SENIOR CELEBRATION: $2k → 15%SAND SPRING EDUCATION FOUND: $1k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 15%SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 15%SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%CPHS SENIOR CELEBRATION: $1k → 15%SS SMALL BUSINESS COALITION: $1k → 15%SANDITE FINE ARTS: $1k → 15%SENIOR CELEBRATION: $1k → 15%SENIOR CELEBRATION: $1k → 15%RETA RIDDLE: $1k → 15%SENIOR CELEBRATION: $1k → 15%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 15%NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $1k → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMER: $900 → 15%SAND SPRINGS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMER: $900 → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 12 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$166k
$40k

Still filing today

42%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic 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

  • SS
    SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION I
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +112%
  • SS
    Sand Springs Area Chamber of Commerce
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +268%
  • SS
    Sand Springs Community Services Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HS
    HILL SPRINGS CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • S
    SOTO
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $70,000 · OtherSAND SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLSHILL SPRINGS CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherHILL SPRINGS CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $21,113 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSand Springs Area Chamber of Commerce: $17,216 · OtherSand Springs Area Chamber of CommerceSand Springs Community Services Inc: $13,670 · OtherSand Springs Community Services Inc+18 more: $24,134 · Other+18 moreSAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION I: $20,811 · EducationSAND SPRING…Rock Fire Department: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$176,133Education$20,811Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION I: $20,811 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSand Springs Area Chamber of Commerce: $17,216 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetSand Springs Community Services Inc: $13,670 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRock Fire Department: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,600 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds SAND SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION I ↗
  • Who funds Sand Springs Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds Sand Springs Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rock Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAND SPRINGS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sand Springs Home funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sand Springs Home. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%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
    4get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sand Springs Home?

    Find your warmest path to Sand Springs Home through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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