· Private foundation
Franke Family Charitable 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
- $250k+8 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT | $1,025,000 |
| THE CONNECITICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL | $600,000 |
| JUMPSEED | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $410,000 |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | $275,000 |
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| IRIS INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +25%- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
- IRINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES7× · 2019–2025 · $900k · revenue +401%
Funded once
- NSNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
- WCWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
- LOLyric Opera of Chicagoone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -1%
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 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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago Humanities Festival ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds JUMPSEED INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franke Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franke Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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