· Private foundation
Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k119 grants · $385k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $479k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC | $31,916 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $30,000 |
| DANCING CLASSROOMS INC | $30,000 |
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $25,000 |
| HOUSING NANTUCKET | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CLIFF ISLAND CORPORATION FOR ATHLETICS & CONSERVATION EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC | $20,000 |
| HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC | $20,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| BOHEMIANS | $15,000 |
| THE PRO-VOICE PROJECT FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
222 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +20%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $69k · revenue +6%- FIFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAone grant, 2022 · $40k
- SASAFE AT HOME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $35k
FILM INDEPENDENTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +83%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is 12 Metre Yacht Development Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
278 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 278 of the 476 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
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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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Boston Foundation Inc · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · Clara Foundation Inc · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Tupancy-Harris Fdn-1986 · Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation · Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family 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 Ernst & Elfriede Frank 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- The Johnson String Project Inc — 79% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hannah's House Inc — 6% of income from government
- World Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Mad River Path Association — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 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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