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J Blair & Tena Frank Foundation at a glance

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J Blair & Tena Frank 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.0MPhilanthropy$2.5MInternational$2.1MCivil Rights$645kReligion$518kYouth Development$339kArts & Culture$195kHuman Services$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $379k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC$225,000
CYBER EDUCATION CENTER$155,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC$125,000
PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS$125,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$100,000
UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC$100,000
YOUTH RENEWAL FUND-DARCA ODEM SCHOOL$100,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$100,000
JEWISH KIDS GROUP FOUNDATION INC$75,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$55,000
INSTITUTE OF CURRICULUM SERVICES$50,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$50,000
FRIENDS OF IRGUN NECHEI ZAHAL$50,000
FRIENDS OF HABAITA INC$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF HABAITA INC: $50k → 10%Amherst College: $300k → 12%HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%Quest Bridge: $750k → 8%INSTITUTE OF CURRICULUM SERVICES: $50k → 10%MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA HOSPITAL: $25k → 9%METO INC: $438k → 14%OPENDOR MEDIA INC: $15k → 13%MEM GLOBAL: $25k → 10%JEWISH KIDS GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $100k → 17%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $100k → 9%Bates College: $947k → 13%Amherst College: $60k → 12%Meto Inc: $70k → 14%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $50k → 9%Bates College: $914k → 13%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $25k → 9%Bates College: $906k → 13%HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $100k → 14%BATES COLLEGE: $200k → 13%THE SHALOM HARMAN INSTITUE OF NORTH: $18k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES: $50k → 14%Bates College: $75k → 13%WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAM: $50k → 14%Bates College: $45k → 13%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR E: $35k → 14%Bates College: $25k → 13%UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC: $300k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $125k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $100k → 17%THE LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC: $225k → 14%MECHON HADAR: $50k → 17%PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOO: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25k → 17%CYBER EDUCATION CENTER: $155k → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUT: $50k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC: $25k → 17%THE LAWFARE PROJECT: $25k → 17%AGUDA ASSOCIATION FOR LGBTQ EQUALITY IN ISRAEL: $25k → 17%SUMMER CAMP ISRAEL: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $20k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND-DARCA ODEM SCHOOL: $100k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $25k → 17%PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS: $125k → 17%FRIENDS OF IRGUN NECHEI ZAHAL: $50k → 17%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

ME
WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 17 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$7.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

88%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationReligionCivil RightsArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +9%
  • MI
    METO INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $508k · revenue +44% · 42% of their budget
  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    2× · 2019–2021 · $360k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ISREAL DEFENSE FORCE
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • ML
    MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HILLEL AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNI
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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5
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
6
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
7
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
8
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
9
The Jerusalem Connection
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10
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hadar Charitable 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

44 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. 44 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
18/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $3,113,200 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGEMETO INC: $508,425 · EducationMETO INCAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $360,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $225,000 · Education+6 more: $320,000 · Education+6 moreFidelity Charitable Fund: $2,065,117 · OtherFidelity Charitable FundFRIENDS OF THE ISREAL DEFENSE FORCE: $500,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISREAL DEFENSE FORCECYBER EDUCATION CENTER: $155,000 · Other+44 more: $1,119,428 · Other+44 moreThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $525,000 · Crime & LegalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $259,759 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $60,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $50,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $25,000 · InternationalTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $25,000 · International+4 more: $17,500 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentBrothers for Life: $175,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,526,625Other$3,839,545Crime & Legal$525,000Community Improvement$359,759International$337,500Youth Development$225,000Arts & Culture$195,000

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 budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $3,113,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $525,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMETO INC: $508,425 over 2y, 42% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $360,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $259,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $225,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Kids Group Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL UNION FOR DEMOCRACY IN IRAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Livnot ULehibanot: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…William Davidson Foun…Tina & Steven Price C…The Newton D & Rochel…Lisa & Michael Leffel…Hochberg Family Found…The Marcus Foundation…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Donors Trust Inc
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · William Davidson Foundation · Tina & Steven Price Charitable Foundation · The Newton D & Rochelle F Becker Foundation · Lisa & Michael Leffell Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Donors Trust Inc

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 J Blair & Tena Frank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Blair & Tena Frank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 76 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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