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The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades 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.

$142k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,921
Organizations funded a year
16 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$142k31%
FY202320$145k15%
FY202219$169k26%
FY202119$156k26%
FY202016$140k0%
FY201928$135k32%
FY201825$137k28%
FY201724$134kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$288kEducation$269kHuman Services$205kArts & Culture$153kScience & Tech$72kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$22kHealth$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tulsa Boys' Home Inc$187,30080%
Church of Saint Mary$131,0238n/a
The University of Tulsa$114,39680%
The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc$97,13051%
Tulsa Opera Inc$45,00031%
Churchcraft Inc Dba Churchcraft Consulting$8,07912%
Friends of Catholic Education$7,92830%
Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc$5,00010%
Sprouts Child Development Initiative Inc$5,00010%
F B I L Inc$4,5002n/a
Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($533k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTulsa Boys' Home Inc: $187,300 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $114,396 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: $97,130 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Opera Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetChurchcraft Inc Dba Churchcraft Consulting: $8,079 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of Catholic Education: $7,928 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSprouts Child Development Initiative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc: $4,017 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetScott Carter Foundation: $3,580 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Intervention Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Air & Space Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel University: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright of Tulsa: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndian Nations Council Boy Scouts of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHispanic American Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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 FoundationOK30.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Oxley Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · John and Donnie Brock Foundation · The Charles & Marion Weber 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.

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About The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation

How much does The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation give?
The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $142,015 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Education (23%), Human Services (18%).
Who are The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tulsa Boys' Home Inc ($187k), Church of Saint Mary ($131k), The University of Tulsa ($114k).
Does The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc, Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma.
Where is The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation based?
The Sam J & Nona M Rhoades Foundation is based in OK.

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 57 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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