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Frankenberg Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Frankenberg Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$223kYouth Development$175kFood & Nutrition$70kHealth$55kArts & Culture$50kPhilanthropy$15k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANCHO CIELO$50,000
VACAVILLE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$25,000
EQUIPMENT JUNCTION INC$25,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NAPA VALLEY FOOD BANK: $20k → 9%FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $20k → 9%VACAVILLE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $25k → 10%SUTTER BAY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR SMILES: $25k → 10%FAMILY MEAL SACRAMENTO REGION: $10k → 12%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ CO: $10k → 13%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $50k → 5%WGU ADVANCEMENT: $103k → 8%STEM FUTURE FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%ACCMA: $10k → 10%SSVMS: $10k → 12%EQUIPMENT JUNCTION INC: $25k → 13%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $30k → 8%ACCMA: $10k → 10%EQUIPMENT JUNCTION INC: $15k → 13%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $20k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $10k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $10k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 3 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$270k
$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-30%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RC
    RANCHO CIELO INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +11%
  • WU
    WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue -30%
  • EJ
    EQUIPMENT JUNCTION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue -95% · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • WA
    WGU Advancement
    one grant, 2022 · $103k · revenue 0%
  • Sundance Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR SMILES
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
2
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
5
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

—
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
8
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
11
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
12
Western Governors University

Wgu's mission is to change lives for the better by creating pathways to opportunity. wgu does this by operating and administering an institution of higher education and learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Cielo Inc; the most unlike its peers is Equipment Junction Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WGU Advancement: $102,500 · OtherWGU AdvancementALLIANCE FOR SMILES: $25,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR SMILESNAPA VALLEY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherNAPA VALLEY FOOD BANKACCMA: $20,000 · OtherACCMASTEM FUTURE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherSTEM FUTURE FOUNDATIONSSVMS: $10,000 · OtherFAMILY MEAL SACRAMENTO REGION: $10,000 · OtherSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherRANCHO CIELO INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentRANCHO CIELO INCTHE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS &…WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITYEQUIPMENT JUNCTION INC: $40,000 · EducationEQUIPMENT JUNCTION INCSundance Institute: $50,332 · Arts & CultureSundance …FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$212,500Youth Development$175,000Education$120,000Arts & Culture$50,332Food & Nutrition$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWGU Advancement: $102,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $50,332 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUIPMENT JUNCTION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetTHE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frankenberg Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frankenberg Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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