· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $681k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+12 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTRINSIC SCHOOLS | $13,565,000 |
| TIME LINE THEATER | $4,100,000 |
| BUILD | $4,050,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $3,702,783 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $1,525,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $1,074,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $1,053,600 |
| A BETTER CHICAGO | $1,024,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MBSD DEVELOPMENT | $825,000 |
| ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $700,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $350,000 |
| PROJECT UNLOADED | $285,000 |
| CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE | $199,998 |
| CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $125,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ISINTRINSIC SCHOOLS6× · 2018–2024 · $18M · revenue +228% · 39% of their budget
- BIBUILD INC6× · 2018–2024 · $14M · revenue +523% · 42% of their budget
University of Chicago6× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +52%
Funded once
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +31%- CPCHICAGO PULBLIC EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $750k
- JJFMCone grant, 2022 · $550k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 181 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INTRINSIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT UNLOADED INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Frank Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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