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Frost Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$794kArts & Culture$175kPhilanthropy$131kHealth$83kEducation$15kInternational$10kHuman Services$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GAINESVILLE$200,000
NORTH GA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FRIENDS OF FLOWERY BRANCH CAR SHOW: $500 → 12%RANDY AND FRIENDS INC: $350 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 5 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
23

Total granted

$1.4M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

20%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationReligionOther
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

  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GAINESVILLE
    6× · 2021–2026 · $1.0M
  • NG
    NORTH GA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2023–2026 · $179k
  • NG
    NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $125k

Funded once

  • SR
    SMOKE RISE BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2025 · $15k
  • SC
    SEVIER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Northeast Georgia Health System Inc

Northeast georgia health system (nghs) is on a mission of improving the health of the community in all we do. nghs is a not-for-profit organization and is the parent company for the following affiliates: a. northeast georgia medical…

Health
2
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Inc

Northeast georgia medical center is an affiliate of northeast georgia health system (nghs) and is on a mission of improving the health of the community in all we do. nghs is a not-for-profit organization and is the parent company for the…

Health
3
Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Inc

Northeast georgia physicians group is an affiliate of northeast georgia health system (nghs) and is on a mission of improving the health of the community in all we do. nghs is a not-for-profit organization and is the parent company for the…

Health
4
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
5
The Good Samaritan Health Center Inc

Spreading Christs love through quality healthcare to those in need. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is a health care home providing comprehensive primary care to low-income, uninsured individuals in greater metropolitan…

Health
6
The Medical Center Foundation Inc Dba the Northeast Georgia Health System Foun

The medical center foundation, inc., also known as the nghs foundation, is an affiliate of northeast georgia health system (nghs) and is on a mission of improving the health of the community in all we do. nghs is a not-for-profit…

Health
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
9
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
10
Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of god's love.

Health
11
Wellstar Mcg Health Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.

—
12
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good News Clinics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Flowery Branch Car Show Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GAINESVILLE: $1,026,800 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GAINESVILLENORTH GA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $179,095 · OtherNORTH GA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER: $125,000 · OtherNORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTERNORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+17 more: $42,055 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionGOOD NEWS CLINICS INC: $6,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 · HealthEDMONDSON TELFORD CENTER FOR CHILDREN I: $1,750 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF FLOWERY BRANCH CAR SHOW INC: $500 · Human ServicesBLOOM ENTERPRISES OF GA INC: $350 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Education
Other$1,447,950Religion$10,000Health$7,350Crime & Legal$1,750Human Services$850Education$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEWS CLINICS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDMONDSON TELFORD CENTER FOR CHILDREN I: $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOM ENTERPRISES OF GA INC: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST GEORGIA CARE INC CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds EDMONDSON TELFORD CENTER FOR CHILDREN I ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FLOWERY BRANCH CAR SHOW INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOM ENTERPRISES OF GA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST GEORGIA CARE INC CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION 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.

North Georgia Community Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frost Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frost Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Frost Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Frost Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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