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Franklin F Offner Foundation at a glance

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Franklin F Offner 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$69kHealth$63kHuman Services$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kInternational$22kCivil Rights$13kHousing & Shelter$12kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$459k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH$5,252
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$3,153
AMERICAN RED CROSS$3,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$2,105
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THREE LAKES WATERFRONT ASS'N$2,000
MAKING SAN DIEGO SMILE$2,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,500
OCEAN CLEAN UP$1,500
LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE POOR$1,010
SAVE THE CHILDREN$1,000
FEEDING AMERICA$1,000
CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICE$500
3 LAKES COMMUNITY FND$450
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$410
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%BOYSTOWN: $250 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $3k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $3k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $2k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%CARPLS: $1k → 14%CARPLS: $1k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
OK
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$216k · 29 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
40

Total granted

$216k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+52%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalFood & 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +40%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +46%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • FT
    FEED THE CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -5%
  • CF
    CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +99%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
9
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is Feed Our Rural Kids 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

51 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. 51 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
42/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKING SAN DIEGO SMILE: $7,000 · OtherMAKING SAN DIEGO SMILEPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $7,000 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICACHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDE: $6,520 · OtherLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDEIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH: $5,252 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3,500 · OtherPAWS INC: $3,642 · OtherThree Lakes Waterfront Association: $6,150 · OtherThree Lakes Waterfront Association+40 more: $38,509 · Other+40 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $25,153 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FO…NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $9,605 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS …Feeding America: $8,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America+2 more: $2,548 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National…WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $8,105 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIORS …CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYON…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR P…COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEA…THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYEL…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…+4 more: $2,793 · Health+4 moreFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILD…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOU…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,046 · InternationalUNITED STATES …ENGENDERHEALTH INC: $3,000 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $9,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $8,200 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrection Project: $1,047 · Housing & Shelter
Other$91,073Food & Nutrition$45,806Human Services$44,355Health$42,293International$35,046Civil Rights$13,000Housing & Shelter$9,247

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $25,153 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $9,605 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $8,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $8,105 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThree Lakes Waterfront Association: $6,150 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,046 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS INC: $3,642 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Legal Clinic: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,270 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE LAKES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,210 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $1,512 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $1,047 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $1,031 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHOSTEL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $189 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDTCare: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $100 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.

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 Chicago Community…The Pfizer Foundation…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL14.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 77 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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