· Private foundation
Frankard 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOC OF MN | $2,400 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| FREEDOM HONOR FLIGHT | $2,000 |
| BELOVED ASHVILLE | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $1,000 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT-NATIONAL PROCESSING CENTER | $1,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST ANNE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $750 |
| MAYO CLINIC POVERELLO FOUNDATION-MAYO CLINIC | $700 |
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 (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
44 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DSDown Syndrome Association of Minnesota9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +143%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +64%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- CSCOTTER SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +306%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS (TX FLOOD)one grant, 2018 · $1k
- SASALVATION ARMY - TX HURRICANEone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.
To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 58 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 Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds COTTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Gostomski Foundation · Slaggie Family Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frankard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frankard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chill Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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