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Krfrench Family Foundation at a glance

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Krfrench Family 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.

$6.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.8MHealth$3.7MInternational$3.4MPublic Benefit$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.0MYouth Development$755kEnvironment$477kHuman Services$94kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+11 grants · $6.6M
$499,617
Median grant
6
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,019,600
CATO INSTITUTE$802,530
DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK$503,023
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$503,023
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$503,023
WAYNFLETE SCHOOL$499,617
MAINE MEDICAL CENTER$499,617
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER$404,113
GRASSROOTS SOCCER$302,203
VALPO SURF PROJECT$296,092
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$250,454
HEALTHY HOMEWORKS$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Harlem Children's Zone: $65k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $29k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against -52% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$15M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
-52%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +65%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +81%
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • MH
    Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue -52%
  • DM
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
    one grant, 2017 · $362k · revenue -60%
  • DH
    DARMOUTH HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
12
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,479,519 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $718,673 · EducationWAYNFLETE SCHOOLNorthern Forest Center Inc: $477,137 · EducationNorthern Forest Center IncLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $309,287 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYTrustees of Dartmouth College: $250,000 · Education+1 more: $76,205 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,375,377 · InternationalInternational Rescue Co…MaineHealth: $1,109,950 · HealthMaineHealthMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $370,272 · HealthMary Hitchcoc…Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: $361,593 · HealthDartmouth-Hit…+1 more: $50,000 · HealthDARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK: $770,616 · OtherDARTMOUTH HI…MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $766,703 · OtherMASS GENERAL…DARMOUTH HEALTH: $250,000 · OtherDARMOUTH HEA…+1 more: $29,611 · OtherGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $1,031,996 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT SO…VALPO SURF PROJECT INC: $755,486 · Recreation & SportsVALPO SURF P…CATO INSTITUTE: $1,663,287 · Public BenefitCATO INSTIT…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $93,868 · Human Services
Education$5,310,821International$3,375,377Health$1,891,815Other$1,816,930Recreation & Sports$1,787,482Public Benefit$1,663,287Human Services$93,868

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,479,519 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,375,377 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $1,663,287 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMaineHealth: $1,109,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $1,031,996 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetVALPO SURF PROJECT INC: $755,486 over 4y, 64% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $718,673 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $477,137 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $370,272 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $309,287 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $93,868 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $76,205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY HOMEWORKS: $50,000 over 1y, 35% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Krfrench Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Krfrench Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Krfrench Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Krfrench Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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