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Franklin 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.

$66k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$530k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Franklin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 arriving21$66k24%
FY202421$78k43%
FY202316$60k19%
FY202221$58k19%
FY202121$92k19%
FY202021$85k33%
FY201923$68k26%
FY201816$58k25%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$158kEducation$130kHousing & Shelter$116kPhilanthropy$107kHealth$75kInternational$49kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
GA
FL

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 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($340k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Franklin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOccidental College: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $40,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetLos Angeles Jewish Symphony: $19,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFrench Institute - Alliance Francaise: $17,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRead Ahead Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetChildrens All Day School: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPartnership With Children Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico Philharmonic Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNetwork 20 20 Inc: $4,650 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Orchestra: $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLermitage Foundation: $1,800 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOrpheus Chamber Orchestra Inc: $1,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Unbound: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of the East End I: $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Soccer Federation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFdny Foundation Inc: $104 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to Franklin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Franklin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Franklin Family Foundation

How much does Franklin Family Foundation give?
Franklin Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $66,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Franklin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (20%), Housing & Shelter (18%).
Who are Franklin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($90k), Occidental College ($45k), University of Michigan ($40k).
Does Franklin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Franklin Family 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 Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Franklin Family Foundation based?
Franklin Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 62 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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