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Frankel Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAND | $150,000 |
| HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CNTR FOR JEWISH-A | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC | $100,000 |
| KINO BORDER INITIATIVE | $70,000 |
| INDIGENOUS EDUCATIONAL NETWORK OF TURTLE ISLAND | $60,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PRESCOTT | $21,000 |
| PRESCOTT ANIMAL PARK ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL HEALTH COMMITTEE INC | $20,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $15,000 |
| THE LAUNCH PAD TEEN CENTER | $10,500 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| NIJC NFP | $10,000 |
| WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC | $10,000 |
| HYDE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
116 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $755k · revenue +127%
- MUMarquette University3× · 2021–2023 · $655k · revenue +16%
- HIHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA7× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- YOYOUTH OPPORTUNITY UNITEDone grant, 2017 · $110k
- HIHAND IN HANDCENTER FOR JEWISH ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRAELone grant, 2021 · $70k
- UMUUCTNO MORE DEATHSKEEP TUCSON TOGETHERone grant, 2021 · $51k
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.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Goldin Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 183 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 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds STAND ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Natural History Institute ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER ↗
- Who funds USAHELLO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER PRESCOTT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Hyde School ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GOLDIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Sunbird Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds BOOKS AND BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds KEEP TUCSON TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
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: Evanston Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern University · The Kellcie Fund · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Francis Beidler Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Rsf Social Finance 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 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Chelonian Research Foundation — 16% 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.
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