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Seminole State College Educational Foundation Inc

Seminole State College Educational foundation provides support to Seminole State College, scholarships for Seminole State College students, and economic development for surrounding areas.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.7M
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.

Community Improvement$5.5MPublic Benefit$345kEducation$308kArts & Culture$30kEmployment$20kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $374k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grow 356 LLC$1,677,485
Seminole State College$174,312
Flying O Machine LLC$100,000
Foundation Training Ranges LLC$50,000
Foundation Stocks LLC$50,000
Housing Authority of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma$40,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Benson True Value Hardware$20,000
South Central Industries Inc$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Living Moss LLC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Auld Construction LLC$20,000
Jearl Smart Foundation$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 17%Mamaw's Cafe & Catering: $20k → 15%Flying O Machine LLC: $100k → 16%South Central Industries Inc: $20k → 19%Gadco Events LLC: $20k → 19%Central Metal Finishing LLC: $20k → 23%Rural Business and Resources Center: $217k → 25%Auld Construction LLC: $20k → 15%Hynson's Classic Burgers: $20k → 16%G & H Decoys: $20k → 19%Foundation Stocks LLC: $50k → 23%Sweetness & Soul: $20k → 24%Seminole State College: $174k → 25%Living Moss LLC: $20k → 15%Gadco Events LLC: $20k → 19%The Big Shop LLC: $20k → 23%Okemah Oil Company: $20k → 24%Seminole Public Schools: $53k → 25%Parks Manufacturing LLC: $20k → 15%G & H Decoys Inc: $20k → 19%Foundation Training Ranges LLC: $50k → 23%Peng An: $20k → 24%Downtown Floral Company: $40k → 25%Stroud Industrial Authority: $93k → 15%Shawnee Spine LLC: $20k → 19%Hill Top Pine Soap & Candle LLC: $20k → 23%The Truck Shop LLC: $20k → 24%The Academy of Seminole: $25k → 25%Grow 356 LLC: $1.7M → 15%J & M Copeland Enterprises LLC: $20k → 24%Seminole State College: $25k → 25%Grow 356 LLC: $579k → 15%B & S Wilbourn LLC: $20k → 23%Community Care Funeral Service: $20k → 24%Grand Pools: $20k → 25%Town of Wellston: $345k → 15%Benson True Value Hardware: $20k → 24%MM&H Property Management LLC: $20k → 25%Hiland Dairy Foods: $743k → 15%The Grind: $20k → 24%Hiland Dairy Foods: $25k → 15%Hiland Dairy Foods: $25k → 15%City of Wewoka: $273k → 25%City of Wewoka: $155k → 25%Wewoka Industrial Authority: $155k → 25%City of Wewoka: $68k → 25%City of Wewoka: $46k → 25%Housing Authority of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma: $40k → 25%Bluff View Machine LLC: $40k → 25%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 10 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
35

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+60%

Still filing today

10%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $771k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • G3
    Grow 356 LLC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M
  • HD
    Hiland Dairy Foods
    3× · 2020–2022 · $793k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $543k

Funded once

  • TO
    Town of Wellston
    one grant, 2020 · $345k
  • RB
    Rural Business and Resources Center
    one grant, 2020 · $217k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $155k
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
Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Ok Rhythmic Empire Inc
Youth Development
3
Diversity Center of Oklahoma Inc
Health
4
Downtown Oklahoma City Initiatives Inc

The organizations mission is to foster an environment of creativity and culture through public art and activation in downtown. projects funded are meant to inspire conversation and wonder and to activate unused space or reinvent existing…

Community Improvement
5
Southwest Historical Foundation

To preserve and protect museum artifacts of the south central area of oklahoma

Arts & Culture
6
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Inc

Oklahoma contemporary arts center encourages artistic expression in all its forms through education,exhibitions, and performance.

Arts & Culture
7
Okmulgee Area Development Corp

Economic development in okmulgee county

Community Improvement
8
Chamber of Commerce of Seminole

Promote business and community growth through economic development programs designed to strengthen and broaden the income potential of the seminole trade area; to develop civic, social, and cultural programs designed to increase the…

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9
Oklahoma Academy for State Goals

To provide information to citizens. The organization encourages the utilization and developement of the State of Oklahomas resourses.

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10
Oklahoma Media Center Inc

The goal of the oklahoma media center is to support and strengthen oklahoma's local journalism ecosystem and spur innovation through statewide collaboration that benefits diverse audiences and educate/informs the public on important…

Arts & Culture
11
Downtown Oklahoma City Inc

The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.

Community Improvement
12
Woodward Industrial Foundation

Economic development of woodward, ok and northwestern oklahoma.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seminole Nation Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Jearl Smart Foundation 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

8 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. 8 of the 84 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grow 356 LLC: $2,256,601 · OtherGrow 356 LLCHiland Dairy Foods: $793,268 · OtherHiland Dairy FoodsIndividual grant recipient: $542,820 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTown of Wellston: $344,500 · OtherTown of WellstonSeminole State College: $230,612 · OtherRural Business and Resources Center: $216,960 · Other+71 more: $1,711,865 · Other+71 moreSEMINOLE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJasmine Moran Childrens Museum Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ACADEMIES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $25,000 · EducationSOUTH CENTRAL INDUSTRIES INC: $20,000 · EmploymentJEARL SMART FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNEW WEWOKA INDUSTRIES: $20,000 · Community ImprovementEAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$6,096,626Arts & Culture$40,000Education$25,000Employment$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Community Improvement$20,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE ACADEMIES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL INDUSTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEMINOLE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetJEARL SMART FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJasmine Moran Childrens Museum Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds SEMINOLE NATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMIES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SEMINOLE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds JEARL SMART FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Seminole State College Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seminole State College Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • East Central Oklahoma Family Health Center Inc: 43% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–50%
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 84 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 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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