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Francine and Richard Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Francine and Richard Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$13k67%
FY20243$45033%
FY20233$50067%
FY20222$4000%
FY20213$45033%
FY20203$45033%
FY20193$45033%
FY20183$4500%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$10kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$900International$200Religion$200Education$100Food & Nutrition$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Irish Heritage Theatre Inc$10,0001n/a
The Morris Animal Refuge$3,60070%
Alley Cat Allies Inc$75030%
Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$75080%
Lubavitch of Montgomery County$2001n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom$20010%
Philabundance$10010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Francine and Richard Bank Foundation

How much does Francine and Richard Bank Foundation give?
Francine and Richard Bank Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $13,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Francine and Richard Bank Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Animals (30%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Francine and Richard Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Irish Heritage Theatre Inc ($10k), The Morris Animal Refuge ($4k), Alley Cat Allies Inc ($750).
Does Francine and Richard Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Francine and Richard Bank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Francine and Richard Bank Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Francine and Richard Bank Foundation based?
Francine and Richard Bank Foundation is based in PA.

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 11 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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