Illinois · Private foundation
Frank Family 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.
- $35M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $13,565,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $118M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Frank Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 88 | $35M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $9.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $12M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $7.6M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $6.0M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $7.8M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intrinsic Schools | $18,279,472 | 6 | 39% |
| Build Inc | $14,105,000 | 6 | 42% |
| University of Chicago | $4,847,000 | 6 | 0% |
| A Better Chicago | $1,734,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,498,499 | 4 | 0% |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | $1,175,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,000,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chicago Public Education Fund | $890,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Illinois Network of Charter Schools | $700,000 | 1 | 13% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Frank Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 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.
Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Susan & Robert Wislow Charitable Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · The Bluhm Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Frank Family Foundation
- How much does Frank Family Foundation give?
- Frank Family Foundation reported 88 grants totaling $34,916,326 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Frank Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Youth Development (20%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Frank Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Intrinsic Schools ($18M), Build Inc ($14M), University of Chicago ($4.8M).
- Does Frank Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frank Family 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 Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Frank Family Foundation based?
- Frank Family Foundation is based in IL.
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