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Frank Crystal 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Frank Crystal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$5k100%
FY20232$78k50%
FY20221$500100%
FY20211$1k100%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20192$33k100%
FY20183$6k67%
FY201716$83kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$75kHealth$47kPhilanthropy$41kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$9kRecreation & Sports$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
TN
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frank Crystal Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlliant Insurance Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInsurance Industry Charitable Foundation: $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewark Mentoring Movement: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSt John's University New York: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Firm Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDaniel W Offit Fund to Fight Glioblastoma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Bedtime Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlgemeiner Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $656 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Canaan Mounted Troop Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Landmarks Conservancy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $164 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Frank Crystal Foundation

How much does Frank Crystal Foundation give?
Frank Crystal Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Frank Crystal Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (36%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (19%).
Who are Frank Crystal Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alliant Insurance Foundation ($75k), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($28k), Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation ($16k).
Does Frank Crystal Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frank Crystal 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 Frank Crystal Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Frank Crystal Foundation based?
Frank Crystal Foundation is based in NY.

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 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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