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Francis C Elkin & Phyllis J Frier Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$65kHealth$44kArts & Culture$42kEducation$31kInternational$19kEnvironment$17kCivil Rights$17kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$611k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION$5,400
OVER THE INFLUENCE RECOVERY$5,000
ANIMAL HUMANE NEW MEXICO$5,000
ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$2,500
NEW MEXICO BIOPARK SOCIETY$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,000
NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION$2,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALBUQUERQUE$2,000
SUNFLOWER SANCTUARY ANIMAL RESCUE$1,500
ACLU OF NM FOUNDATION$1,500
CANCER SERVICES OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION$1,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY NM$1,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NM$1,500
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $500 → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $300 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $300 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ALBUQUERQUE: $1k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ALBUQUERQUE: $1k → 14%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$282k · 48 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
25

Total granted

$282k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+62%

Still filing today

65%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • AM
    ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +77%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +98%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • TW
    TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +199%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INT
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
10
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
11
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albuquerque Museum Foundation Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
41/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANIMAL HUMANE OF NM: $35,000 · OtherANIMAL HUMANE OF NMUNIVERSITY OF NE: $15,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $10,400 · OtherPNM TNMP FOUNDATIONOVER THE INFLUENCE RECOVERY: $10,000 · OtherOVER THE INFLUENCE RECOVERYNM MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $9,500 · OtherNM MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherACLU: $6,700 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,350 · Other+37 more: $67,600 · Other+37 moreANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL HUM…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $9,100 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHA…Sunflower Sanctuary Animal Rescue: $5,500 · AnimalsSunflower …NEW MEXICO BIOPARK SOCIETY INC: $3,500 · AnimalsNEW MEXICO…+2 more: $750 · AnimalsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,100 · HealthST JUDE CH…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,700 · HealthALZHEIMER'…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO: $3,500 · HealthRONALD MCD…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $3,000 · HealthROCKY MOUN…CANCER SERVICES OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,300 · HealthCANCER SER…+1 more: $500 · HealthALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $18,100 · Arts & CultureALBUQUERQ…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $4,700 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONI…MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,500 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,300 · International+3 more: $1,700 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $10,800 · EducationROOM TO READ: $2,950 · EducationTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $7,750 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $1,650 · Food & NutritionROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $1,150 · Food & NutritionRIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$175,750Animals$28,850Health$27,100Arts & Culture$24,800International$21,500Education$15,750Food & Nutrition$11,050

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 budgetALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $18,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $10,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $10,400 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $9,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels New Mexico: $7,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSunflower Sanctuary Animal Rescue: $5,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $4,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO BIOPARK SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $2,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Albuquerque: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPrison Dharma Network Inc: $1,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $1,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS AND STRIPES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS: $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.

  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels New Mexico ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Sunflower Sanctuary Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO BIOPARK SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
  • Who funds Assistance League of Albuquerque ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Albuquerque Community FoundationNM27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Club Culturale Italiano Inc · King-Carpenter Foundation · Corrales Friends of Animals Foundation Dba Dennis Friends Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Don & Colletta McMillian Foundation · The Frederick H Leonhardt 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 Francis C Elkin & Phyllis J Frier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis C Elkin & Phyllis J Frier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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