Oklahoma · Nonprofit
SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM
SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $851 to it, the largest being The Powell Foundation ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $851
- Net assets
- $-32290
What Sight-Hearing Encouragement Program does
Mission
To assist deaf blind individuals by providing tactile dual sensory interruption while helping them to become more self-independent. We train communities, college, and professional to understand and assist with the advocacy and development of deaf blind individuals. SHEP assists deaf blind individuals by offering training, advocacy, and awareness. We also provide mental and emotional support by providing community, classes, training, and other activities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
SHEP Herd Club Teach Deaf Blind individuals how to read braille, use the specific equipment like readers, braille machines, and provide support and service to the deaf blind community. SHEP improves the quality of life and independence with the (Deaf Blind Individual) DBI, being able to live independently. With the training that we provide to the first responders, they can utilize equipment to quickly respond to emergency situations and interact and notify the deaf blind by taking the specific precautions and by using the quick response cue cards written in braille. First responders have stated it will reduce the footprint of their response time. They are now able to identify if the household has a dual sensory loss need by the decal stickers and by the training and have a quicker and more in-depth response. This includes knowing if there is a DB and where they sleep. Because if they respond to someone and their abilities are diminished, the first responders must be able to quickly communicate and move forward with a course of action. This helps the DB be able to assume the same qualities of life that another individual would receive in life saving measures and actions. This also…
$40,000 spentof which $41,602 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
21% of SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $311 → $40.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM’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
SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,056 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $486 on record.
- Other Prof, Sc. & Tech.Svc$486
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 SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM: 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 SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM?
- SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $851 to it, the largest being The Powell Foundation ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $851 in grants to SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM?
- The Powell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIGHT-HEARING ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 2 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