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The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation at a glance

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The Sharna and Irvin Frank 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
148
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$1.7MInternational$1.4MEducation$1.0MHealth$910kReligion$829kArts & Culture$724kYouth Development$713kPhilanthropy$624kOther$0
02FY2025 · 148 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k107 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE ISRAEL$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,021
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY$50,000
YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA$45,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA$40,000
KIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREPARATORY$35,000
NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC DBA MADISON STRATEG$35,000
RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC$30,000
1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC$30,000
PROJECT ELF INC$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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 (FY21–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $15k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $15k → 11%NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE: $13k → 14%NEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE: $13k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER TULSA: $20k → 15%EASTERN OKLAHOMA DONATED DENTAL SERVICES (EODD: $20k → 15%EASTERN OKLAHOMA DONATED DENTAL SERVICES (EODD: $20k → 15%EASTERN OKLAHOMA DONATED DENTAL SERVICES (EODD: $15k → 15%EASTERN OKLAHOMA DONATED DENTAL SERVICES (EODD: $15k → 15%NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR: $15k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $45k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $45k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $45k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $45k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA: $45k → 15%GROWING TOGETHER INC: $15k → 15%GROWING TOGETHER INC: $15k → 15%GROWING TOGETHER INC: $15k → 15%GROWING TOGETHER INC: $15k → 15%GROWING TOGETHER INC: $15k → 15%THE SPRING SHELTER INC: $25k → 15%THE SPRING SHELTER INC: $15k → 15%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $20k → 15%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $20k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $30k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $30k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $30k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $30k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%EMERGENCY INFANT SERVICES: $25k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $25k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $20k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $15k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OKLAHOMA: $15k → 15%PROJECT ELF INC: $35k → 15%PROJECT ELF INC: $35k → 15%PROJECT ELF INC: $30k → 15%PROJECT ELF INC: $30k → 15%PROJECT ELF INC: $30k → 15%LIFE SENIOR SERVICES: $25k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE TULSA: $15k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE TULSA: $15k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE TULSA: $15k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE TULSA: $15k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 149 repeat orgs$448k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

149 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149
80

Total granted

$8.9M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

84%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalReligionOther
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

  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $275k · revenue ×12
  • TULSA AREA UNITED WAY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $252k · revenue +10%
  • YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +115%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER TULSAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +72%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

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

Employment
2
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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3
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
4
Tulsa Children's Museum Inc

To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Tulsa Educare Inc

Tulsa educare, inc.'s mission is to transform lives through high-quality early childhood education, meaningful family engagement, and impactful early learning supports.

Youth Development
7
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc

To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Ywca Tulsa Inc

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

Human Services
9
Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences

The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.

Education
10
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.

—
11
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
12
Oklahoma Educational Memorial Trust Fdn

Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma; the most unlike its peers is Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

195 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. 195 of the 256 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
194/195
Grantees still filing
121/195
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $464,021 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE ISRAEL: $359,607 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION: $275,000 · OtherB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATIONTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $252,000 · OtherTULSA AREA UNITED WAYNEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC: $160,000 · Other+90 more: $3,021,263 · Other+90 moreYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA…THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $172,000 · Human ServicesTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDAT…PROJECT ELF INC: $164,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ELF INCResonance Center for Women Inc: $145,000 · Human ServicesResonance Center for Wo…Emergency Infant Services Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Infant Servic…GROWING TOGETHER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC: $75,000 · Human Services+31 more: $1,160,110 · Human Services+31 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $666,378 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL …TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $345,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMU…+5 more: $86,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $220,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $75,000 · HealthPALMER CONTINUUM OF CARE INC: $65,000 · HealthHIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES: $50,000 · HealthTHE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthParkside Inc: $45,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTION INC: $40,000 · HealthPAUSE4PAWS INC: $31,000 · HealthOKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthKIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC: $140,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $120,000 · EducationSTREET SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationThe Pencil Box Inc: $75,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $65,000 · EducationTULSA HONOR ACADEMY INC: $55,000 · EducationThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $30,000 · EducationFLO & MORRIS MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $23,500 · Education+11 more: $82,500 · EducationThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $190,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $123,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · InternationalTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $75,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $75,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $30,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUFA BAKEHILA: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $30,000 · International+2 more: $26,000 · InternationalHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTulsa Symphony Orchestra Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA OPERA INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFab Lab Tulsa Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureClark Youth Theatre Incorporated: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $22,500 · Arts & CultureJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $54,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,531,891Human Services$2,151,110Philanthropy$1,097,378Health$701,000Education$691,000International$684,000Arts & Culture$522,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $666,378 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $252,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma: $220,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $172,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT ELF INC: $164,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetNEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetKIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $130,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budget1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC: $130,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetEmergency Infant Services Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $123,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA DAY CENTER INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Town & Country School Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetREVITALIZE T-TOWN: $100,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGROWING TOGETHER INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC: $75,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP TULSA INC: $75,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetEASTERN OKLAHOMA DONATED DENTAL SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetA NEW LEAF INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SPRING SHELTER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPALMER CONTINUUM OF CARE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $63,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $61,610 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORS ALONG THE LINE: $60,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TULSA INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.7% 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ELF INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
  • Who funds 1ST STEP MALE DIVERSION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Emergency Infant Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds TULSA DAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Town & Country School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds REVITALIZE T-TOWN ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH PEORIA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GROWING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
  • Who funds PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP TULSA INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN OKLAHOMA DONATED DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma 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.

The Anne and Henry Za…George Kaiser Family …The Gelvin FoundationRalph and Frances McG…Grace & Franklin Bern…Sanford P & Irene F B…Charles and Lynn Schu…The Hardesty Family F…Oneok Foundation IncMervin Bovaird Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Tulsa Area United Way
The Anne and Henry Zarrow FoundationOK167.6× affinity87 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 · George Kaiser Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way

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 The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 630%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Public School Resource Center: 67% of income from government
  • Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc: 37% of income from government
  • The Center for Housing Solutions Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Community Health Connection Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Mediation Program Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Intervention Services: 15% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Growing Together 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
  • Academy Art Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Gardens Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
63get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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 The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sharna and Irvin Frank 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 256 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home