Oklahoma · Nonprofit
A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC
A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $948,426 to it, the largest being Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation ($275,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $948k
- Net assets
- $578k
What A Pocket Full of Hope Inc does
Mission
Arts education for youth
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Served 150 participants. Provided tutoring, individual and group counseling services. All excel in rehearsals and live performances. Participants exceeded yearly goals for school attendance, behavior at school, and grade point averages.
$75,976 spent$75,976 earned by the program42% of program spendingParking lot completion of the Historic Big 10 Ballroom
$104,000 spent$104,000 earned by the program58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,976.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $445k to $692k (+55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 9% · 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lester Shaw
Executive director
Board chair
David Morris
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $50k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 26% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26k on record.
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$17k
- Approved Program Reimbursement$7k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC?
- A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $948,426 to it, the largest being Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation ($275,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $948,426 in grants to A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC?
- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing