Illinois · Private foundation
Franklin Philanthropic 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.
- $809k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 164
- Grants FY2025
- 154
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $46,682
- Organizations funded a year
- 129 to 158
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 32
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Franklin Philanthropic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 163 | $807k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 154 | $733k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 158 | $800k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 148 | $861k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 141 | $766k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 129 | $567k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 350org | $227,269 | 6 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $77,168 | 6 | 0% |
| Henrys Fork Wildlife Alliance Inc | $75,571 | 6 | 27% |
| Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance | $69,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $65,083 | 3 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Boatworks Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders New York City Inc | $53,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $51,260 | 6 | 0% |
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $48,317 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 191 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Franklin Philanthropic Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 171 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Newman's Own Foundation · National Network of Abortion Funds Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Franklin Philanthropic Foundation
- How much does Franklin Philanthropic Foundation give?
- Franklin Philanthropic Foundation reported 164 grants totaling $809,231 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 129 and 158 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin Philanthropic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Health (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Franklin Philanthropic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: 350org ($227k), Ocean Conservancy ($77k), Henrys Fork Wildlife Alliance Inc ($76k).
- Does Franklin Philanthropic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franklin Philanthropic 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 Philanthropic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Hopewell Fund.
- Where is Franklin Philanthropic Foundation based?
- Franklin Philanthropic Foundation is based in IL.
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