· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $3,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2018–2022 · $95k · revenue +22%- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +69%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ATASOLO THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $91k · revenue +25%
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +78%
- CICISV INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue ×38
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.
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.
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
Jewish home of rochester senior housing (the summit), provides independent living, enriched housing and other related services to residents, as well as long-term care services in conjunction with jewish home of rochester. the summit…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds CISV INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLUVIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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