Illinois · Private foundation
Charles F and Esther M Frye 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.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 30 | $159k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $127k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $148k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $175k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $167k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broward Performing Arts Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Broward Hospital District Charitable Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $40,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Museum of Discovery and Science Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Broward Childrens Center Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Deliver the Dream Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Junior Welfare Society | $14,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Humane Society of Broward County Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Broward College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles F and Esther M Frye 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: Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Bbx Capital Foundation Inc · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Alfred & Rose Miniaci Foundation Inc · Hudson Family Foundation Inc · The Amaturo Family Foundation · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The William R Watts Fndn Inc
How this is measured
Compare Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation with peer funders
About Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation
- How much does Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation give?
- Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $164,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Broward Performing Arts Foundation Inc ($55k), North Broward Hospital District Charitable Foundation Inc ($45k), American Cancer Society Inc ($41k).
- Does Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles F and Esther M Frye 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 Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Broward Inc, Bbx Capital Foundation Inc, Florida Panthers Foundation Inc.
- Where is Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation based?
- Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation is based in IL.
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