Illinois · Private foundation
Jerome Frankel 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.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $194k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Jerome Frankel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $18k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $20k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $20k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $19k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $19k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $17k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $57,715 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $24,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $22,015 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $1,628 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Lasalle Language Academy Inc | $1,400 | 3 | 2% |
| MedGlobal Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $950 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $950 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerome Frankel Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gavlin Family Foundation · The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Jerome Frankel Foundation
- How much does Jerome Frankel Foundation give?
- Jerome Frankel Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $17,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jerome Frankel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (28%).
- Who are Jerome Frankel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Sholom of Chicago ($58k), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($40k), The Art Institute of Chicago ($25k).
- Does Jerome Frankel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerome 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 Jerome Frankel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Jerome Frankel Foundation based?
- Jerome Frankel Foundation is based in IL.
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