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Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$943k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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80% of Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’18
0
’19
0
’20
6
’21
0
’22
7
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$750,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionInternationalHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$193k14%
FY20239$453k11%
FY20222$270k0%
FY20219$318k89%
FY20201$80k0%
FY20191$80k100%
FY20183$170kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.3MSocial Science$720kReligion$500kFood & Nutrition$108kInternational$65kEnvironment$40kHealth$40kCivil Rights$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetExtrafood: $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUrban Adamah: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTipping Point Community: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChronicle Season of Sharing Fund: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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Find your warmest path to Alfred and Hanna Fromm 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.

About Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation

How much does Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation give?
Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $942,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Social Science (11%), Religion (7%).
Who are Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Extrafood ($100k), Urban Adamah ($40k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($40k).
Does Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alfred and Hanna Fromm 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.
Where is Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation based?
Alfred and Hanna Fromm Foundation is based in CA.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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