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Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$239k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth 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
FY2024still arriving2$8k0%
FY20231$7k0%
FY20223$50k33%
FY20211$3k0%
FY20204$153k0%
FY20196$158k17%
FY201827$210k15%
FY201724$263kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$432kArts & Culture$293kHealth$54kReligion$26kEducation$10kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$3kInternational$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
TN
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Detroit Opera$104,58050%
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc$95,00040%
Asolo Theatre Inc$91,33211%
Temple Israel of Detroit$25,8507n/a
Henry Ford Health System$20,00030%
Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc$10,00010%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$2,00020%
Jarc$2,00020%
Friendship Circle$2,0002n/a
Salvation Army$1,0002n/a
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All grantees of Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Detroit Opera$104,58050%
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc$95,00040%
Asolo Theatre Inc$91,33211%
Temple Israel of Detroit$25,8507n/a
Henry Ford Health System$20,00030%
Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc$10,00010%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$2,00020%
Jarc$2,00020%
Friendship Circle$2,0002n/a
Salvation Army$1,0002n/a
Cisv International Inc$1,0001n/a
Alluvium Inc$5001n/a
American Friends of Orr Shalom Inc$50010%
Leader Dogs for the Blind$20020%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($496k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDetroit Opera: $104,580 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Symphony Orchestra Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAsolo Theatre Inc: $91,332 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHenry Ford Health System: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Senior Life Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Detroit Institute of Arts: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJarc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Orr Shalom Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeader Dogs for the Blind: $200 over 2y, 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 9.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation

How much does Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation give?
Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $8,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (51%), Arts & Culture (34%), Health (6%).
Who are Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Detroit Opera ($105k), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($95k), Asolo Theatre Inc ($91k).
Does Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herman and Sharon Frankel 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 Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation based?
Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation is based in FL.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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