· Private foundation
Frank L & Helen Gofrank 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of FRANK L & HELEN GOFRANK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $49,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FDN | $25,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDN GREATER ROCHESTER | $12,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATIES U OF M | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DETROIT | $1,500 |
| ACADEMY OF SACRED HEART | $1,500 |
| ST VINCENTS DEPAUL | $1,500 |
| ALBION COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +202%
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +26%
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- UMUT MD ANDERSON CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k
- PSPROVIDENCE ST JOHN CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $60k
- RAREGENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $50k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
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Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 54 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 53 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WALSH COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds ROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELTA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Artichoke Garlic Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 L & Helen Gofrank 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.
- University of Miami — 5% 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.