· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
82 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. 82 of the 181 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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