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.

Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation

Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$261kHuman Services$180kArts & Culture$101kEducation$90kReligion$87kScience & Tech$35kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $114k
$10k–50k5 grants · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH	$10,000
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
HANDY INC	$10,000
JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	$10,000
JACK & JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER	$8,000
HENDERSON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER	$7,500
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$7,500
SALVATION ARMY	$7,500
MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY & SCIENCE	$7,500
THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC	$6,000
BUSINESS FOR THE ARTS OF BROWARD INC	$6,000
BROWARD HEALTH FOUNDATION	$5,000
BROWARD CHILDREN'S CENTER	$5,000
UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$815k · 33 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$815k

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+16%

Still filing today

48%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NB
NORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +728%
MO
MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +215%
TI
TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN
4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +19%

Funded once

NS
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
one grant, 2024 · $5k
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
HB
Hospice by the Sea Inc
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +16%

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.

Broward Community and Family Health Centers Inc

The organization is a non-profit organization and is committed to providing accessible comprehensive high quality primary and preventive care services to all persons with dignity and respect. our focus is on preventive care and health…

Health

Broward Behavioral Health Coalition Inc

To deliver a comprehensive array of behavioral health services in the state of florida to eligible children,adolescents, adults, elders and families in the organization's service area and to subcontract with qualified, direct service,…

Health

Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1910, the greater fort lauderdale chamber of commerce is the oldest and largest business organization in broward county and it is apparent that throughout our history we have transitioned to better serve the business community.

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Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum

Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…

Arts & Culture

Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education

Metro Broward Economic Development Corporation Inc

MBEDCS mission is to be a permanent capital resource in Broward County Florida, and to indirectly contribute to the creation of jobs for low to moderate income individuals

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Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center Inc

To promote the optimal health and wellbeing of children and youth with special health care needs by providing family centered, comprehensive prevention, intervention and treatment services within a medical home environment. our vision is…

Health

Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health

Jewish Family Home Care Inc

Jewish family home care, inc. is dedicated to empowering individuals, strengthening older adults and families, and protecting the vulnerable by providing exceptional home care and nursing assessments services guided by jewish values,…

Health

The Broward Alliance

To lead greater fort lauderdale and broward county in building a stronger and more diversified economy.

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Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bougainvilla House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

17/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$651,750Health$145,000Arts & Culture$37,500Human Services$31,000Philanthropy$30,000Youth Development$23,500Community Improvement$22,000

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Broward IncFL32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles F and Esther M Frye Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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