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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Frameworks Institute

To identify, conduct, translate, and apply rigorous research that frames the public discourse on social problems in order to advance the nonprofit and public sectors' communications capacity, alignment, and effectiveness.

$835k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$795,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$795,000
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.9M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$835kHuman Services$199k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leading for Kids$199,000163%
Partnership for Safety and Justice$40,00013%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($795k), not named here.

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About Frameworks Institute

How much does Frameworks Institute give?
Frameworks Institute reported 2 grants totaling $835,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Frameworks Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (81%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Frameworks Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Leading for Kids ($199k), Partnership for Safety and Justice ($40k).
Where is Frameworks Institute based?
Frameworks Institute is based in DC.

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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $83k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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