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G Andrew Franz Family 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.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$739kYouth Development$262kHuman Services$146kReligion$68kHealth$65kArts & Culture$62kScience & Tech$50kCommunity Improvement$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$4,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$869k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS$60,000
EVOLUTION FESTIVAL$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE FORGOTTEN$17,000
ST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION$8,800
HEALS CENTER FOR THE ARTS$4,500
CARONDELET COMMUNITY BETTERMENT FEDERATION INC$4,500
MINISTRY OF EMPLOYED$4,500
JOB SEEKERS GARDEN CLUB$4,500
LITSHOP$4,500
BECAUSE OF BRUCEY$4,500
LITERACY AND HOPE FUND$4,500
UNSUNG ANGELS$4,500
VIRTUALLY ANGELIC FOUNDATION$4,500
UNITED FUND OF STOKES CO$4,500
THIS JOURNEY MINISTRIES$4,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IDEOS INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%Social Innovation Laboratory Inc: $5k → 16%Warrenton Co Pathfinders: $5k → 8%Khaos Inc: $3k → 10%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $4k → 19%MARCY'S PROJECT: $4k → 5%INEXCELSIS INC: $5k → 21%Alleluia Baskets: $5k → 5%RISE UP TRANSITIONAL RESOURCES: $5k → 5%Home Sweet Home: $5k → 11%DECEMBER 5TH FUND: $4k → 11%The Little Bit Foundation: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 7 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
94

Total granted

$1.1M
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CT
    CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +7%
  • FM
    FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +151%
  • NG
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • LF
    LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +86%
  • VT
    VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • HC
    HOPE CREATESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +227%
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
Maries World Inc

Marie's World Inc. is a youth servicing organization designed to decrease gun violence. We provide support and guidance to youth and young adults ages 8-24 years old in the development of life skills to succeed and be a positive influence…

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2
Journey to Destiny Ministries

Journey To Destiny Ministries (JTDM) is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization committed to transforming and restoring dignity, hope, and opportunity to vulnerable individualsespecially children, women, and families affected by…

Religion
3
Reach St Charles

Our goal is to connect individuals in St Charles County with resources to address their specific need(s), on a case-by-case basis. We provide food boxes, holiday meal boxes, distribute meals, supplies, and clothing to the homeless, and…

Human Services
4
Recovery St Louis
Health
5
Braveworks

Our vision is to be a catalyst for god-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant & purposeful lives. our mission is to empower women & families overcoming trauma & injustice, bridging the gap from pain to…

Human Services
6
When She Thrives

To equip single mother to move their families from poverty to prosperty

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7
Dream Makerz Outreach

Created to stabalize the economic hardship of women & children

Unclassified
8
Love the Lou
Community Improvement
9
The Power of You Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Women Enabled Enterprises

Women Enabled Enterprises strives to help low income women of color artisans in African countries grow their craft business for self-sufficiency through a virtual, mobile-phone based, retail entrepreneurship skills building program, access…

Human Services
11
Love Unity & Values Institute

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS to inspire hope and empower underserved youth with economic opportunities, while building resiliency and social-emotional competencies.

Youth Development
12
Isee a Better You

To be a bridge supporter for girls going from grade to grade and level to level in the educational system as they journey through the course of life in every field of life as entrepreneur career and education with certified leadership and…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Success; the most unlike its peers is Tech With Heart Foundation. 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

70 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. 70 of the 129 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS: $709,952 · EmploymentCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS+1 more: $5,000 · EmploymentThe Gathering: $175,000 · OtherThe GatheringEVOLUTION FESTIVAL: $20,000 · Other+89 more: $390,325 · Other+89 moreFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS MAR…Alleluia Baskets Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesWARREN COUNTY PATHFINDERS: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOME SWEET HOME: $5,000 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA: $5,000 · Human ServicesDiane's Heart Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL INNOVATION LABORATORY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINEXCELSIS INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesIDEOS INSTITUTE: $4,500 · Human ServicesRISE UP TRANSITIONAL RESOUCES: $4,500 · Human Services+4 more: $14,000 · Human Services+4 moreNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50,000 · EducationLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationEMPOWERING YOUTH AND COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 · EducationTech With Heart Foundation: $5,000 · EducationA RED CIRCLE: $5,000 · EducationLitShop: $4,500 · EducationTHE ANDREW JOSEPH FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · EducationMIRIAM FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $26,782 · InternationalFood for His Children: $4,500 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $3,500 · InternationalHOPE CREATES: $5,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS FILMWORKS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSt Louis ArtWorks: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNITY EARTH INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHEAL'S CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $4,500 · Arts & CultureLOVE LIKE JACKSON: $4,500 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Forgotten: $17,000 · ReligionAGAPE TIME MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $4,500 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $2,500 · Religion
Employment$714,952Other$585,325Human Services$132,500Education$106,000International$34,782Arts & Culture$29,000Religion$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS: $709,952 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $26,782 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Forgotten: $17,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHOPE CREATES: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ACCESS TO MISSIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWARREN COUNTY PATHFINDERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS ON HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSickle Cell Association: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST CHARLES COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERING YOUTH AND COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEQUUS RESCUE AND THERAPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetResource Recovery Project: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetUNITY EARTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYUPPY PUPPIES FOREVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Council of St Charles County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTech With Heart Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetA RED CIRCLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGATEWAY TO DREAMS: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION LABORATORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLitShop: $4,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINEXCELSIS INC: $4,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE ANDREW JOSEPH FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetHANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $4,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHEAL'S CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDEOS INSTITUTE: $4,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBENNETT PROJECT: $4,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE UP TRANSITIONAL RESOUCES: $4,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSTL YOUTH JOBS: $4,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTORIES FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFood for His Children: $4,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAGAPE TIME MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOZARK VITALITY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetAMANI FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDECEMBER 5TH FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY 180 YOUTH PROGRAM INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…Moneta Group Charitab…World Wide Technology…Dennis M Jones Family…United Way of Greater…Youthbridge Community…Regional Cultural and…Centene FoundationEmployees Community F…Norman J Stupp Founda…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO36.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Dennis M Jones Family Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Norman J Stupp 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 G Andrew Franz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G Andrew Franz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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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Find your warmest path to G Andrew Franz Family Foundation 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 129 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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