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Frankel Family Charitable Trust

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.

$291k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$361kEducation$269kInternational$239kPublic Benefit$233kSocial Science$172kCivil Rights$151kPhilanthropy$64kHuman Services$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $187k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION B'NAI AMOONA$13,900
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF BLUE ASH$13,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING AND ANALYSIS (CAMERA)$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC$10,000
JEWISH EDUCATION FOR EVERY PERSON (JEEP)$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$10,000
THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE$10,000
ZAKA NORTH INC$10,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$10,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS$10,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$10,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI (ACTA)$10,000
CATO INSTITUTE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CINCINNATI AREA: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 71 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
47

Total granted

$1.5M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
InternationalEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

  • JE
    Jewish Education for Every Person
    8× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +62%
  • HI
    Hudson Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +242%
  • TC
    THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • Z
    ZAKA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

3
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
4
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

6
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
11
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
12
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,474

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.

04the grantee network

74 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 142 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
52/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION BNAI AMOONA — $70,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI AMOONAHudson Institute Inc — $45,000 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS — $45,000 · OtherCHABAD OF BLUE ASH — $37,500 · OtherNUSACH HARI-BNAI ZION CONGREGATION — $34,150 · OtherHOOVER INSTITUTE — $32,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $32,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $38,000 · Other+83 more — $532,500 · Other+83 moreCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $40,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR…MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST M…MIDDLE EAST FORUM — $35,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST F…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $34,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATION…Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $32,000 · InternationalFoundation fo…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 · International+5 more — $8,300 · InternationalCATO INSTITUTE — $45,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITU…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $43,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN IN…ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $26,000 · Public BenefitETHICS AND P…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WAT…INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $8,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $4,000 · Public BenefitASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $29,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES — $25,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $22,500 · EducationGATESTONE INSTITUTE — $15,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $14,000 · EducationCINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC — $10,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education+4 more — $5,800 · EducationJewish Education for Every Person — $47,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI — $17,500 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $8,540 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of St Louis — $6,358 · PhilanthropyTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL — $5,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $5,600 · PhilanthropyNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $39,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $27,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $34,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $18,000 · Civil RightsLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION — $17,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $16,000 · Civil RightsTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$911,150International$199,300Public Benefit$186,000Education$131,800Philanthropy$110,498Arts & Culture$97,000Civil Rights$89,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJewish Education for Every Person — $47,500 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $39,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM — $35,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $27,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES — $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW — $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC — $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetProvident Inc — $16,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATESTONE INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $8,540 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Federation of St Louis — $6,358 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINDING THE CAMPUS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $4,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Jewish Education for Every Person
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds New Civil Liberties Alliance
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
  • Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
  • Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES
  • Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
  • Who funds COMMENTARY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI
  • Who funds LEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Provident Inc
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY27.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Fjc · The Toots Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Goldstein Family Foundation · Colegato Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc

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 Frankel Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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