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Elden E Bjurling Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Elden E Bjurling Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$189kCommunity Improvement$90kRecreation & Sports$45kHealth$45kPhilanthropy$40kHuman Services$38kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
$18,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPLEWILD SCHOOL$25,500
HEYWOOD HOSPITAL$25,000
GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL$20,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY$20,000
HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY$18,500
Individual grant recipient$15,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL$10,000
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$7,925
VOICES OF TRUTH CORP$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GARDNER EMERGENCY HOUSING MISSION: $20k → 11%VOICES OF TRUTH CORP: $5k → 11%VOICES OF TRUTH CORP: $5k → 11%GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT: $25k → 11%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 7 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$275k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
-25%

Still filing today

14%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • SB
    ST BERNARDS HIGH SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k
  • GC
    GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $70k
  • FC
    FINNISH CENTER OF SAIMA PARK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k

Funded once

  • MW
    MT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • MC
    MWCC - CHILD WATCH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $28k
  • GP
    GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +112%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BERNARDS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $75,000 · OtherST BERNARDS HIGH SCHOOL INCGARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $70,000 · OtherGARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILFINNISH CENTER OF SAIMA PARK: $45,000 · OtherFINNISH CENTER OF SAIMA PARKHOLY FAMILY ACADEMY: $38,500 · OtherHOLY FAMILY ACADEMYMT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherMT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONMWCC - CHILD WATCH PROGRAM: $27,500 · OtherMWCC - CHILD WATCH PROGRAMROYALSTON SOUTH VILLAGE REVITALIZATION: $20,000 · OtherMONADNOCK TRUST: $20,000 · OtherATHOL HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY: $20,000 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL: $20,000 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $16,231 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $16,358 · OtherGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGROWING PLA…GARDNER EMERGENCY HOUSING MISSION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGARDNER EME…VOICES OF TRUTH CORPORATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesVOICES OF T…APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $25,500 · EducationHenry Heywood Memorial Hospital: $25,000 · HealthTHE GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$433,589Human Services$55,000Education$25,500Health$25,000Arts & Culture$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $25,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHenry Heywood Memorial Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGARDNER EMERGENCY HOUSING MISSION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetVOICES OF TRUTH CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% 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 APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital ↗
  • Who funds GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER EMERGENCY HOUSING MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOICES OF TRUTH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDNER MUSEUM 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.

Community Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of North Central MaMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elden E Bjurling Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elden E Bjurling Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Growing Places Garden Project Inc: 49% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Elden E Bjurling Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elden E Bjurling Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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