· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE USC | $5,000 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLAGE | $5,000 |
| FRENCH INSTITUTE | $4,302 |
| THE BUCKLY SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| LACMA | $2,500 |
| LA JEWISH SYMPHONY | $2,500 |
| IPALPITI | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE OF THE ART | $1,800 |
| ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $1,225 |
| LA YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,000 |
| REACHING U | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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.
27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +39%
- OCOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +31%
- UOUniversity of Michigan8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- RFROGER FEDERER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- FIFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +39%
- MCMIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INCone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +3%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 62 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds READ AHEAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ALL DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK 20 20 INC ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Orchestra ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LERMITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 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 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franklin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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