Oklahoma · Private foundation
Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 69
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 67 | $1.8M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $1.2M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $1.5M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2017 | 69 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gathering Place | $800,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Tulsa Zoo Management Inc | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Parkside Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Assistance League of Tulsa Inc | $370,000 | 8 | 4% |
| A New Leaf Inc | $347,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The University of Tulsa | $231,000 | 3 | 0% |
| 12 & 12 Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Children's Center Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Resonance Center for Women Inc | $180,034 | 8 | 2% |
| The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation with peer funders
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About Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation
- How much does Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation give?
- Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $1,806,846 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (19%), Crime & Legal (7%).
- Who are Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gathering Place ($800k), Tulsa Zoo Management Inc ($450k), Parkside Inc ($375k).
- Does Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation, Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma.
- Where is Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation based?
- Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation is based in OK.
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