· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH | $63,110 |
| UNITED STATE AVIATION CO | $56,800 |
| SOLDIER'S WISH | $30,100 |
| FOOD BANK OF EAST OKLAHOMA | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TULSA INC | $17,800 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,400 |
| TULSA FOP 93 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOOD ON THE MOVE | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS-OF METRO TULSA | $10,000 |
| EAGLE OPS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA | $5,000 |
| TULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND | $5,000 |
| 918 FULLY INVOLVED | $3,750 |
| TULSA AIRPORTS IMPROVEMENT TRUST | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCLASSICALLY FORMED FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $224k · revenue +108%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa7× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +44%
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TGTulsa Girls Home - Project Orphans Incone grant, 2024 · $135k
- PFPEOPLE FOR OPPORTUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +331%
- KAKIDS AGAINST GLOBAL HUNGERone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate and enhance communications with Oklahomans regarding the beenfits of results-oriented policy making in the areas of education, efficiency, entrepreneurship, empowerment, energy, enduring freedom, and eternity.
Serving the needs of the whole child, including education, safety, environment, health, and well-being.
Dramatically reduce gun violence in impacted Oklahoma communities through intervention and effective provision of resources.
To improve the lives of children and youth in oklahoma's child welfare system by providing resources and building community.
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.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
The purpose of the corporation is to create a coalition of educators and community leaders to develop higher education strategies and studies which will lead to a better workforce in the state of oklahoma.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oklahoma Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mva Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 113 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CLASSICALLY FORMED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Soldier's Wish ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds 94X MOVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds Food on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AWARE OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE OPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds O R U GOLDEN EAGLE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENCE FUND ↗
- Who funds MVA INC ↗
- Who funds 918 Fully Involved ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Youth At Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO RESTORE ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds Tulsa FOP 93 Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE OKLAHOMA 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.
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
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 Hern Family 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.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.