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Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.2MHealth$1.8MCrime & Legal$689kEducation$646kYouth Development$578kAnimals$475kHousing & Shelter$430kEmployment$387kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $745k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $650k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATHERING PLACE$150,000
TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT$100,000
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS NE OKLAHOMA$50,000
OSU FOUNDATION$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM$50,000
FAMILY SAFETY CENTER$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA$50,000
TOWN & COUNTRY SCHOOL$30,771
TULSA BOTANCIAL GARDEN$30,000
DVIS$30,000
CENTER FOR IND WPHY CHALLENGE$28,800
NEW VIEW OKLAHOMA$26,200
PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%JOHN 3 16 MISSION: $50k → 14%THE COMMON GOOD: $20k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $50k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $50k → 15%GATESWAY FOUNDATION INC: $48k → 15%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $20k → 15%THE ARC OF OKLAHOMA: $25k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $20k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $20k → 15%CLAREHOUSE: $15k → 15%DVIS: $30k → 15%DVIS: $25k → 15%BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR: $33k → 15%NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR: $15k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $100k → 15%DVIS: $100k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $100k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $75k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $75k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $50k → 15%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $25k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $25k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $25k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $20k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA: $20k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $25k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $50k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $50k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $25k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $25k → 15%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF TULSA: $25k → 15%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF TULSA: $25k → 15%TULSA BOYS HOME: $20k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $75k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $50k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $25k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $25k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $25k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $25k → 15%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $21k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $20k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $20k → 15%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $20k → 15%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $20k → 15%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $20k → 15%MODUS: $25k → 15%MODUS: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 97 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
48

Total granted

$8.6M
$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

73%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Parkside Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $375k · revenue +107%
  • TZ
    TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +46%
  • A NEW LEAF INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $348k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • MC
    MORTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERV
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • TULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue +58%
  • Rogers State University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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2
Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement
3
Tulsa Casa Inc

Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
4
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
5
Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment Corporation

To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
6
Tulsa Community Service Center Inc

Provide financial and supplement assistance to the tulsa area communities

Human Services
7
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers

Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…

Health
8
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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9
La Luz Organization Inc

La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.

Human Services
10
Ywca Tulsa Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
11
Tulsa Honor Academy Inc

The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.

Education
12
111 Tulsa Inc

111Tulsa exists to mobilize the local church to see that no child is without a family in Tulsa County.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma and the most unlike its peers is Akdar Temple Shriners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/110
the rest of the field
16%
600/3,835

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 162 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/106
Grantees still filing
76/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GATHERING PLACE — $800,000 · OtherGATHERING PLACEA NEW LEAF INC — $347,500 · OtherA NEW LEAF INC12 & 12 INC — $225,000 · Other+93 more — $3,527,574 · Other+93 moreASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC — $340,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUL…YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA …LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $158,100 · Human ServicesLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INCResonance Center for Women Inc — $155,034 · Human ServicesResonance Center for Wom…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES — $155,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERV…Emergency Infant Services Inc — $125,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Infant Service…BOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC — $116,426 · Human ServicesBOSTON AVENUE HELPING HA…PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA — $100,000 · Human ServicesModus Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC — $70,000 · Human Services+17 more — $503,295 · Human Services+17 moreParkside Inc — $375,000 · HealthParkside IncMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — $158,935 · HealthMental Healt…The Children's Center Inc — $100,000 · HealthThe Children…HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES — $65,000 · HealthHIV Resource…GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC — $61,781 · HealthGOOD SAMARIT…Joy in the Cause Company — $55,000 · HealthOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC — $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS — $40,000 · Health+8 more — $139,646 · Health+8 moreThe University of Tulsa — $231,000 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation — $83,000 · EducationThe Pencil Box Inc — $75,000 · EducationRogers State University Foundation — $50,000 · EducationSTREET SCHOOL INC — $45,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationFAMILY SAFETY CENTER INC — $123,000 · Crime & Legal1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC — $111,750 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC — $110,000 · Crime & LegalChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network — $105,730 · Crime & LegalTULSA ADVOCATES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN — $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,000 · Crime & LegalTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC — $350,000 · AnimalsTulsa SPCA — $60,245 · Animals+2 more — $10,400 · AnimalsREVITALIZE T-TOWN — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterTULSA DAY CENTER INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $55,500 · Housing & ShelterBeHeard Movement Inc — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTransitional Living Centers of Oklahoma Inc — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,900,074Human Services$2,077,855Health$1,035,362Education$494,000Crime & Legal$480,480Animals$420,645Housing & Shelter$314,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetParkside Inc — $375,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC — $350,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC — $347,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC — $340,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $231,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget12 & 12 INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — $158,935 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $158,100 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc — $155,034 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES — $155,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC — $150,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC — $141,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Town & Country School Inc — $123,706 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY SAFETY CENTER INC — $123,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetREVITALIZE T-TOWN — $120,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetBOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC — $116,426 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY — $115,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC — $111,750 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network — $105,730 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC — $105,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetIRON GATE INC — $104,700 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA DAY CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC — $88,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $83,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetModus Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Norman Inc — $68,854 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES — $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAR CARE CLINIC INC — $65,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCAMP FIRE GREEN COUNTRY INC — $64,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC — $61,781 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTulsa SPCA — $60,245 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $55,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN 316 MISSION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA OPERA INC — $55,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetClarehouse Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetJoy in the Cause Company — $55,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Parkside Inc ↗
  • Who funds TULSA ZOO MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds A NEW LEAF INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds 12 & 12 INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
  • Who funds LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SAFETY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REVITALIZE T-TOWN ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON AVENUE HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds 1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
  • Who funds PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSA ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TULSA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Modus Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Anne and Henry Za…The Gelvin FoundationRalph and Frances McG…The Hardesty Family F…The Sharna and Irvin …George Kaiser Family …Mervin Bovaird Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Oneok Foundation IncMorningcrest Healthca…One Gas Foundation IncMaxine and Jack Zarro…
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK154.9× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 510%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Rogers State University Foundation — 20% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
  • Ability Resources Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
  • The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
51get no government money at all
37report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grace & Franklin Bernsen 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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