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Franklin Cole 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LAFD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| TREE PEOPLE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HUDSON HIGHLAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| STEP UP ON SECOND | $2,000 |
| ACADEMIC FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FDN | $1,500 |
| LA MISSION | $1,500 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 24 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +5%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue ×15- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CSCOVID-19 SOLIDARITY RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D (FROMERLY JDRF)one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
How this is measured
63 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. 63 of the 116 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 The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Academic Freedom Alliance ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE 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: The Annenberg Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franklin Cole Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin Cole Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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