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Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$914k
Granted FY2025still arriving
151
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$838kHealth$583kHuman Services$358kRecreation & Sports$314kEnvironment$287kFood & Nutrition$187kReligion$123kOther$0
02FY2025 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k119 grants · $385k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $479k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY$50,000
NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC$31,916
DANCING CLASSROOMS INC$30,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$30,000
HOUSING NANTUCKET$25,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC$25,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE$20,000
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$20,000
HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC$20,000
CLIFF ISLAND CORPORATION FOR ATHLETICS & CONSERVATION EDUCATION$20,000
PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC$20,000
THE PRO-VOICE PROJECT FOUNDATION INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$15,000
BOHEMIANS$15,000
BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 13%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $10k → 8%SOLES4SOULS: $1k → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $2k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $5k → 11%HOPEWELL INC: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%LEARNING ALLY: $2k → 11%HOPEWELL INC: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $1k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS: $1k → 8%HELIOS CARE: $2k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%HELIOS CARE: $2k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%HELIOS CARE: $1k → 13%HANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $2k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%HANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $2k → 9%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $2k → 16%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $27k → 17%HANNAH'S HOUSE: $2k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%HANNAH'S HOUSE: $1k → 9%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $2k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $2k → 16%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $8k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $8k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $5k → 17%SMALL FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET INC: $2k → 6%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $10k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $4k → 17%SINGLE PARENTS' RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $5k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 222 repeat orgs$884k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

222
225

Total granted

$3.4M
$750k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • ND
    NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +20%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $69k · revenue +6%
  • FI
    Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry
    5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • FILM INDEPENDENTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +66%
  • SA
    SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
7
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
8
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
11
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

278 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
273/278
Grantees still filing
180/278
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Roosevelt University: $210,000 · OtherRoosevelt UniversityMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $115,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $102,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $80,000 · OtherNANTUCKET INTERFAITH COUNCIL: $75,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $69,000 · OtherFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry: $68,000 · Other+105 more: $1,287,290 · Other+105 morePROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $162,000 · Arts & CulturePROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS…NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $113,800 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITU…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $76,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg …Dancing Classrooms Inc: $55,650 · Arts & CultureDancing Classrooms IncNANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC: $41,916 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL…FILM INDEPENDENT: $35,000 · Arts & CultureIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $189,137 · Arts & Culture+16 moreSHELBURNE FARMS: $56,500 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $28,000 · EnvironmentNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET GARDEN CLUB INC: $20,500 · EnvironmentWestchester Land Trust Inc: $12,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $10,500 · EnvironmentKESTREL LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $9,000 · Environment+4 more: $25,750 · EnvironmentTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $59,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $34,000 · EducationSun Valley Community School Inc: $13,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationMYSA SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $8,500 · Education+6 more: $36,500 · EducationTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $66,500 · Human ServicesHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters Inc: $10,750 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHannah's House Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesSMALL FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET INC: $7,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,500 · Human ServicesNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $56,562 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE LINDA LORING NATURE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNANTUCKET ICE COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TO BELONG: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsFAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC: $8,000 · Recreation & Sports12 METRE YACHT CLUB NEWPORT STATION INC: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $27,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $26,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $21,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $13,000 · HealthPALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $9,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $9,000 · HealthTHE CRISIS HOTLINE INC: $8,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $8,000 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Health
Other$2,006,290Arts & Culture$737,503Environment$269,250Education$246,500Human Services$207,250Recreation & Sports$178,562Health$138,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoosevelt University: $210,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $162,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $113,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $102,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $76,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $69,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry: $68,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $66,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $59,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $56,562 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $56,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDancing Classrooms Inc: $55,650 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC: $41,916 over 6y, 35% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOHEMIANS NY MUSICIANS CLUB: $35,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $34,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $31,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNHA PROPERTIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET GARDEN CLUB INC: $20,500 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRO-VOICE PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $16,358 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bannermans Castle Trust Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $15,204 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALUMNAE ASSOCIATION THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMAD RIVER VALLEY ARTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $14,400 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
  • Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Footprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds Dancing Classrooms Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
  • Who funds THE BOHEMIANS NY MUSICIANS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
  • Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds NHA PROPERTIES INC ↗

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 …Nantucket Golf Club F…Charina Foundation In…Boston Foundation IncNancy Sayles Day Foun…Clara Foundation IncCarverdelaney Familie…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Rockland Trust - Blue…Tupancy-Harris Fdn-19…Elizabeth Thayer & E …Meyer & Jean Steinber…
Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA51.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc 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.

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 476 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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