· Private foundation
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $150,000 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| AMAZING PLACE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HERITAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MENLO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Frankel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 61%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL5× · 2018–2023 · $510k · revenue +38%
The Houston Food Bank7× · 2018–2024 · $480k · revenue +28%- BCBaylor College of Medicine6× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MAMD ANDERSON CHILDREN'S CANCER HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- TCTexas Children's Hospitalone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +16%
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +14%
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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…
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 52 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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Houston Law Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds CHILDBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds The Spirit Golf Association ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Strake Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frankel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frankel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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