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Julie and Martin Franklin Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.3M
Granted FY2017
31
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $455k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.5M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASHKEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$3,729,750
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,260,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OR NATIONAL MISSIONS$550,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$210,000
JUMBY BAY ISLAND FUND$75,320
CENTER FOR ENTREPENEURIAL JEWSISH FOUNDATION$70,000
ISLAND ACADEMY$50,000
SAY YES TO EDUCATION$50,000
FITWIZE 4 KIDS$30,000
HEALTH IN THE HOOD$25,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$21,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER$18,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA$18,000
CHAPEL AND YORK FOUNDATION INC$18,000
ROYAL ACADEMY AMERICA$15,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $785k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $210k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OR NATIONAL MISSIONS: $550k → 17%HEALTH IN THE HOOD: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
DC
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 21% of Julie and Martin Franklin Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Julie and Martin Franklin Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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American Friends of the Open University of Israel Inc

To raise awareness in the united states and provide support for the open university of israel's vital mission of making access to higher education available to capable and motivated students from all sectors of israeli society.

International
2
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
5
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
6
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…

Education
7
Israel-America Academic Exchange

Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…

International
8
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

9
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
10
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
11
American Council for World Jewry Inc

Founded so jews, worldwide, can join together in partnership, ensuring our common good and coolective survival. the council acts in the belief that the key to successfully countering threats against the jewish people and the state if…

Civil Rights
12
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenged Athletes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Or National Missions. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr9%20%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%37%20–35yr9%1%35–55yr12%58%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,022

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.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ASHKEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,729,750 · OtherTHE ASHKEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION+15 more — $343,920 · Other+15 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,260,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERS…+1 more — $15,000 · EducationAmerican Friends Of Or National Missions — $550,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Frien…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $210,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATH…+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $21,800 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 · PhilanthropyGENE SPOTLIGHT INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropySTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentEXPERIENCE CAMPS — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentRoyal Academy America Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $18,000 · International
Other$4,073,670Education$1,275,000Human Services$785,000Philanthropy$54,800Youth Development$28,500Arts & Culture$25,000International$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,260,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends Of Or National Missions — $550,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $210,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $21,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $18,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENE SPOTLIGHT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMCCJ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN HOPE CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Julie and Martin Franklin Family Foundation IncFL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Julie and Martin Franklin Family Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Julie and Martin Franklin Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Health in the Hood Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Julie and Martin Franklin Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Julie and Martin Franklin Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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