· Private foundation
Dw Frankel Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Dw Frankel Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Dw Frankel Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $293k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| ST JUDE | $30,000 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $18,275 |
| APETURE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CO | $10,300 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAINFILM LTD | $10,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MET MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- UOUniversity of Miami2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +29%
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +19%
The Fistula Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NWNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INCone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -54%
- TTTHE THACHER SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GMGUGGENHEIM MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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 AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds The Pinhead Institute ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN 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: Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Telluride Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Day Family Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · The Mclaughlin Doty Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Miami 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 Dw Frankel Foundation Inc 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- New World Symphony 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.
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