Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Franklin St Giving Tree 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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 | 6 | $3.4M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $3.1M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $2.7M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $2.8M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $2.2M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.6M | 64% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $571k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $3,500,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Doylestown Health Foundation | $3,106,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $2,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Washington & Jefferson College | $2,325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $870,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bucks County Historical Society Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pearl S Buck International Inc | $59,506 | 3 | 2% |
| Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $3,500,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Doylestown Health Foundation | $3,106,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $2,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Washington & Jefferson College | $2,325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $870,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bucks County Historical Society Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pearl S Buck International Inc | $59,506 | 3 | 2% |
| Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Liberty Museum | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $10,000 | 1 | 58% |
| Children's Inn at Nih Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lenape Valley Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Face to Face Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Frank R Goodman Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Seemon H & Natalie E Pines Fnd · Penn Community Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation
- How much does Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation give?
- Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $3,410,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (29%), Religion (22%).
- Who are Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Catholic Leadership Institute ($3.5M), Doylestown Health Foundation ($3.1M), Thomas Jefferson University ($2.5M).
- Does Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franklin St Giving Tree 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 St Giving Tree Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frank R Goodman Family Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation based?
- Franklin St Giving Tree Foundation is based in PA.
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