Oklahoma · Private foundation
Hern Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $269k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,110
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Hern Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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 | 21 | $269k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $558k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $248k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $237k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $47k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $72k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $75k | 91% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $63k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classically Formed Foundation Inc | $223,500 | 3 | 6% |
| People for Opportunity Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa | $70,695 | 7 | 2% |
| Soldier's Wish | $70,350 | 4 | 5% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| 94x Movement Corporation | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Salvation Army | $22,300 | 5 | n/a |
| Hearts for Hearing Foundation | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Operation Aware of Oklahoma | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Food on the Move Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($855k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hern Family 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Hern Family Foundation
- How much does Hern Family Foundation give?
- Hern Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $268,695 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hern Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Human Services (24%), Education (15%).
- Who are Hern Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Classically Formed Foundation Inc ($224k), People for Opportunity Inc ($100k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa ($71k).
- Does Hern Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hern Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hern Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation.
- Where is Hern Family Foundation based?
- Hern Family Foundation is based in OK.
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