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Berney Family Foundation Attn Terri Lacy at a glance

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Berney Family Foundation Attn Terri Lacy

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MReligion$77kRecreation & Sports$75kHuman Services$19kAnimals$8kYouth Development$4kHealth$3kArts & Culture$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER$2,500
ZOZU PROJECT$2,400
HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$500
RAY OF HOPE$500
WHEELS OF DREAM$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZOZU PROJECT: $2k → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $4k → 14%RAY OF HOPE: $1k → 12%ZOZU PROJECT: $2k → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $3k → 14%RAY OF HOPE: $500 → 12%ZOZU PROJECT: $2k → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $3k → 14%RAY OF HOPE: $500 → 12%ZOZU PROJECT: $1k → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $2k → 14%RAY OF HOPE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $2k → 14%RAY OF HOPE: $500 → 12%RAY OF HOPE: $500 → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING AND GROWTH CENTER: $500 → 14%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.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37k · 7 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$37k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+32%

Still filing today

57%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • E
    EDUCHRIST
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +141%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +35%
  • PT
    PATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.4M · revenue +107%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KIDDIE PARK
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • CC
    CITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
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
Rays of Hope
—
2
Star of Hope Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Source of Hope Ministries
Religion
4
Hope Incorporated
—
5
Partners in Hope
Philanthropy
6
Be Hope International
Religion
7
Spirit of Hope Foundation Co Jacqueline Smith
Philanthropy
8
Journeys of Hope
Education
9
Hopestar Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Hope for the Heart
—
11
The Radiant Hope
Philanthropy
12
Hope House Inc
Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paths to Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ray of Hope 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,407,402 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $3,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF KIDDIE PARK: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF …CITY CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherCITY CHURCH+11 more: $12,814 · Other+11 moreSAMARITAN COUNSELING & GROWTH CENTE: $12,797 · Human ServicesEDUCHRIST: $7,760 · Human ServicesRAY OF HOPE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $5,580 · AnimalsTHE AGAPE MISSION OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $500 · ReligionHope Stone Inc: $200 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,410,402Other$162,814Human Services$24,057Animals$5,580Religion$500Arts & Culture$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,407,402 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING & GROWTH CENTE: $12,797 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCHRIST: $7,760 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $5,580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAY OF HOPE INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS FIRST INC: $3,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope Stone Inc: $200 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING & GROWTH CENTE ↗
  • Who funds EDUCHRIST ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
  • Who funds RAY OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHS TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AGAPE MISSION OF BARTLESVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Denver Justice High School ↗
  • Who funds Hope Stone 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Berney Family Foundation Attn Terri Lacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berney Family Foundation Attn Terri Lacy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    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 22 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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