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Franklin Conklin 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.

$445k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
76
Grants FY2025
65
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 69
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Franklin Conklin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving73$439k21%
FY202465$319k8%
FY202367$378k7%
FY202269$388k4%
FY202168$340k7%
FY202065$349k14%
FY201964$320k44%
FY201761$321kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$531kInternational$337kEducation$323kHealth$231kHuman Services$170kYouth Development$161kCrime & Legal$153kArts & Culture$151kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 89 grantees
All grantees of Franklin Conklin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Justice Mission$168,00080%
Cispes Education Fund$135,00085%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc$97,75082%
Earlham College Inc$70,00070%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$68,00080%
Binghamton Boys & Girls Club Foundation$67,500782%
Family Planning of South Central New York Inc$63,00060%
Electronic Privacy Information Center$60,00070%
Steam Train Inc$60,000514%
Partnership for Safety and Justice$59,00076%
People for the American Way Foundation$57,00060%
Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition$57,00071%
Willows Wings Animal Sanctuary Inc$53,00066%
The Land Institute$52,00080%
Chicago Adventure Therapy Nfp$50,00072%
Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions$47,00071%
Futures Without Violence$43,00060%
National Women's Law Center$43,00080%
Basic Rights Oregon$42,00082%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$40,00040%
Survival International (Usa)$39,00075%
Sojourners Inc$35,00080%
Corvallis Public Schools Foundation$31,30051%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$30,00060%
Global Fund for Women Inc$30,00060%
Finca International Inc$28,00060%
Grassroots International Inc$26,00080%
Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center$25,00012%
Oregon State University Foundation$25,00050%
Brooklyn Debate League Inc$25,00024%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$24,00070%
Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence$21,25080%
Episcopal Relief and Development$20,00040%
Solidago Foundation$20,00031%
Refugee Services of Texas Inc$20,00040%
Human Rights Watch Inc$17,00040%
Pro-Choice Oregon Foundation$17,00031%
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation In$17,00073%
Girls Build$16,00070%
Chess for Success$15,25080%
Oregon Judges Charitable Foundation$14,0006n/a
Secure Justice$14,000117%
Corvallis Sister Cities Association$13,00052%
Willamette Writers Inc$12,00081%
Linn Benton Food Share$12,00080%
The Commons Law Center$11,00030%
Neighbors for Clean Air$10,0001n/a
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$10,00010%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$10,00010%
Smart Reading$9,50080%
Albany Public Schools Foundation$9,00030%
Type Media Center Inc$9,00080%
Homeboy Industries$8,00080%
Center for Constitutional Rights$7,40010%
Abc House Inc$7,00010%
Benton County Historical Society$7,00070%
Minnesota Lyme Association$7,0003n/a
Albany Civic Theater Inc$6,00081%
Operation Fuel Incorporated$6,00050%
Signal Technology Foundation$6,00020%
Corvallis Arts Center Inc$5,50070%
Veteran Feminists of America$5,50062%
The Trustees of the Smith College$5,00010%
Stone Soup Corvallis Inc$5,00011%
Sos Shelter Inc$5,00011%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$5,0001n/a
United Palestinian Appeal Inc$5,0001n/a
Oregon Public Broadcasting$5,00020%
South Corvallis Food Bank$5,00011%
Circle for Justice Innovations Inc$5,0001n/a
Stayton Public Library Foundation$4,70052%
Stoveteam International$4,00040%
Common Sense Media$3,00030%
Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc$2,50010%
Whiteside Theatre Foundation$2,00021%
United States of America Chess Federation$2,00020%
Oregon Writers Colony$2,0002n/a
Sherman County Education Foundation Inc$2,0001n/a
Pacific University$2,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$1,00010%
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc$1,00010%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon$1,0001n/a
Seeds for the Sol Inc$1,0001n/a
Corvallis Environmental Center$1,00010%
Friends of the Benton County Treatment Courts$1,000140%
Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc$1,00010%
Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center$1,00010%
Ashbrook Independent School$75010%
Southern Oregon University Foundation$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($768k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Franklin Conklin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Justice Mission: $168,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCispes Education Fund: $135,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc: $97,750 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $68,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBinghamton Boys & Girls Club Foundation: $67,500 over 7y, 82% of budgetFamily Planning of South Central New York Inc: $63,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetElectronic Privacy Information Center: $60,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSteam Train Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPartnership for Safety and Justice: $59,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetPeople for the American Way Foundation: $57,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCorvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition: $57,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetWillows Wings Animal Sanctuary Inc: $53,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetThe Land Institute: $52,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Adventure Therapy Nfp: $50,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCottonwood Gulch Expeditions: $47,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFutures Without Violence: $43,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBasic Rights Oregon: $42,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSurvival International (Usa): $39,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetSojourners Inc: $35,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCorvallis Public Schools Foundation: $31,300 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Fund for Women Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGrassroots International Inc: $26,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCorvallis Daytime Drop-In Center: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Debate League Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $24,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCenter Against Rape and Domestic Violence: $21,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEpiscopal Relief and Development: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSolidago Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRefugee Services of Texas Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPro-Choice Oregon Foundation: $17,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetInternational Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation In: $17,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetGirls Build: $16,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetChess for Success: $15,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSecure Justice: $14,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCorvallis Sister Cities Association: $13,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWillamette Writers Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLinn Benton Food Share: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Commons Law Center: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmart Reading: $9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 79.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR45.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Benton Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties · Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis · Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation · The Larson Legacy · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Franklin Conklin Foundation

How much does Franklin Conklin Foundation give?
Franklin Conklin Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $445,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Franklin Conklin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (18%), International (12%), Education (11%).
Who are Franklin Conklin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: International Justice Mission ($168k), Cispes Education Fund ($135k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc ($98k).
Does Franklin Conklin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Franklin Conklin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Franklin Conklin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Benton Community Foundation, The Autzen Foundation.
Where is Franklin Conklin Foundation based?
Franklin Conklin Foundation is based in OR.

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 134 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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