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Gerald & Roberta Franklin Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDCARE | $55,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| RAINBOW SHELTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN | $45,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| BRANDEIS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK | $20,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| OXFAM | $15,000 |
| PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SOLOMON GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +189%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +70%- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +15%
Funded once
YWCA OF GREATER PORTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +112%- BUBRANDIES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BCBRANDIES COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gerald & Roberta Franklin Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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