New York · Private foundation
Franci Neely Foundation
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.
- $876k
- Granted FY2023
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $771k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 4
- Total assets, FY2023
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Franci Neely Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 29 | $766k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $252k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $516k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Cinema Arts Society | $273,806 | 3 | 29% |
| William Jewell College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Row Houses | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 1 | 0% |
| White Heron Theater Company | $75,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Nantucket Historical Association | $69,735 | 2 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foreign Policy Association Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($666k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Franci Neely Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Franci Neely Foundation
- How much does Franci Neely Foundation give?
- Franci Neely Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $770,500, out of $875,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Franci Neely Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (3%), Health (2%).
- Who are Franci Neely Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Houston Cinema Arts Society ($274k), William Jewell College ($100k), Project Row Houses ($100k).
- Does Franci Neely Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franci Neely Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Franci Neely Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is Franci Neely Foundation based?
- Franci Neely Foundation is based in NY.
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