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Fraenkel Family Foundation at a glance

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Fraenkel Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$276k
Granted FY2017
25
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$208k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k22 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $208k
$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD OF CHILDREN$207,976
WORLD OF CHILDREN$10,000
JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
DAN MARINO FOUNDATION$7,500
PROJECT SUNSHINE$5,000
CHAMPION CHARITIES$5,000
FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
HOLOCAUST & HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION$3,000
NEW YORK STAGE & FILM$3,000
LOVE 146$2,010
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$2,000
URBAN JUSTICE CENTER$1,500
VOGEL ALCOVE$1,500
IMPACT 100 WESTCHESTER$1,100
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%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

VT
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
LA
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 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
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
The Manhattan Childrens Center

Provides transdisciplinary behavioral intervention and education to children and young adults, ages six to twenty-one, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.

Education
4
Children and Youth Justice Center

The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…

Crime & Legal
5
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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7
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
8
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
9
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
10
New York Jewish Agenda Inc

New york jewish agenda held events and briefings, and worked with elected officials and grass-tops leaders to enact our vision of a socially just new york.

Civil Rights
11
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
12
Dependency Advocacy Center

Dependency advocacy center (dac) provides zealous legal representation to indigent clients in the juvenile dependency system to promote timely reunification and preservation of families in a safe, healthy environment. dac believes that…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hrj Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Online Journalism Project Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD OF CHILDREN: $207,976 · OtherWORLD OF CHILDRENWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $9,250 · OtherJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT100 WESTCHESTER INC: $1,100 · PhilanthropyTHE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,500 · Human ServicesHRJ CHARITIES INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS: $1,000 · HealthOnline Journalism Project Incorporated: $500 · HealthHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureLOVE146 INC: $2,010 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalMaryland Institute: $500 · Education
Other$227,226Philanthropy$11,100Human Services$11,000Youth Development$10,000Health$6,500Arts & Culture$6,200Crime & Legal$3,010Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $2,010 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOnline Journalism Project Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fraenkel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fraenkel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • LOVE146 Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Maryland Institute: 1% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fraenkel Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fraenkel Family Foundation 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 25 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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