How much does Franklin Family Foundation give?

Franklin Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $118,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Franklin Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (13%).

Who are Franklin Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Norfolk Collegiate School ($538k), Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation ($181k), Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ($100k).

Does Franklin Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% 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 Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc, Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation.

Where is Franklin Family Foundation based?

Franklin Family Foundation is based in VA.

Franklin Family Foundation

Franklin Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Franklin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$118k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$346kHealth$255kRecreation & Sports$81kArts & Culture$64kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$54kAnimals$45kOther$0

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $3k
$10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$3k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL	$50,000
ODU	$40,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION	$15,000
VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY	$10,000
TEENS WITH A PURPOSE	$2,000
EMILY GREEN SHORES ASSISTED LIVING	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Franklin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 94%.

Franklin Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

$1.6M · 27 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+20%

Still filing today

63%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

NC
NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
7× · 2018–2024 · $538k · revenue +21%
CB
CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $181k · revenue +359%
VW
VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +75%

Funded once

NC
NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $125k
CH
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
OE
ODU EDUCATIONAL FUND
one grant, 2018 · $30k

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.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools Entrepreneurship and Business

Education

Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education

Evms Academic Physicians and Surgeons Health Services Foundation

The evms academic physicians and surgeons health services foundation (the "foundation") exists to further the mission and goals of the eastern virginia medical school ("evms"), a school of medicine within the virginia health sciencces at…

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Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health

Norfolk State University Research and Innovation Foundation

To provide brands and services that promote applied research and technological innovations that, in turn, contribute positively to the economic strength of the hampton roads region and the commonwealth of virginia.

Community Improvement

Northern Virginia Health Foundation

Philanthropy

Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights

Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…

Recreation & Sports

Portsmouth Reads

Education

James Barry Robinson Institute

The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 91 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/45

Grantees still filing

31/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$953,225Education$571,021Health$194,454Philanthropy$183,793Human Services$41,272Recreation & Sports$40,000Animals$35,200

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.

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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA37.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · C Barker Champions for Charity Inc · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Sentara Health

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 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home