· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of J BLAIR & TENA FRANK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $379k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| YOUTH RENEWAL FUND-DARCA ODEM SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $100,000 |
| UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC | $100,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $100,000 |
| JEWISH KIDS GROUP FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| MECHON HADAR | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HABAITA INC | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 33 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE5× · 2017–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +9%- MIMETO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $508k · revenue +44% · 42% of their budget
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES2× · 2019–2021 · $360k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ISREAL DEFENSE FORCEone grant, 2024 · $500k
- MLMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- HAHILLEL AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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…
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 77 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 PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds METO INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Kids Group Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
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: 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
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 J Blair & Tena Frank 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Amherst College Trustees — 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.