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Fronk Family Foundation Inc

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,001
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$422k
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 Fronk Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving15$22k47%
FY20249$15k22%
FY202313$26k62%
FY20225$17k20%
FY20211$1k0%
FY20203$4k100%
FY20194$14k75%
FY20182$17k100%
87% 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$53kEducation$25kCommunity Improvement$9kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$4kAnimals$4kScience & Tech$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Strings Music Festival$48,30360%
Alliance for Choice in Education$10,00060%
Junior League of Denver Foundation$8,50051%
Food Bank of the Rockies$4,00030%
Opera Colorado$3,50020%
Denver Rescue Mission$3,00020%
Chill Foundation$2,75020%
Savio House$1,50010%
Oxford House Inc$1,50010%
Jasper Project$1,5001n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($74k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStrings Music Festival: $48,303 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Denver Foundation: $8,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Colorado: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChill Foundation: $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSavio House: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxford House Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaruso Family Charities: $1,321 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJunior League of Denver Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Metro Denver Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNews Release Basketball: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County: $250 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 17.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Fronk Family Foundation Inc

How much does Fronk Family Foundation Inc give?
Fronk Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $22,501 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fronk Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (14%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are Fronk Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Strings Music Festival ($48k), Alliance for Choice in Education ($10k), Junior League of Denver Foundation ($9k).
Does Fronk Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fronk Family Foundation Inc 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 Fronk Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Fronk Family Foundation Inc based?
Fronk Family Foundation Inc is based in CO.

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 31 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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