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Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
45%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$979k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterAnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$94k23%
FY202411$96k45%
FY20238$75k25%
FY20228$71k25%
FY20215$76k20%
FY20203$42k33%
FY20194$12k75%
FY20189$120k33%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$574kPhilanthropy$86kReligion$85kRecreation & Sports$41kAnimals$8kHousing & Shelter$6kHealth$5kEducation$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$291,14180%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$206,87340%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$56,00010%
Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation$40,50082%
Chicago Loop Synagogue$27,4007n/a
Congregation Emanu El$24,1375n/a
Chicago Maritime Museum$15,00024%
Peace of Mind Inc$6,00021%
Angelica Village$6,00031%
The North Carolina Theatre$5,50010%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$291,14180%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$206,87340%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$56,00010%
Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation$40,50082%
Chicago Loop Synagogue$27,4007n/a
Congregation Emanu El$24,1375n/a
Chicago Maritime Museum$15,00024%
Peace of Mind Inc$6,00021%
Angelica Village$6,00031%
The North Carolina Theatre$5,50010%
University of Michigan$2,50011%
Jam for Jamaica Inc$2,0001n/a
Congregation Emanu-El Bne Jeshurun$2,0001n/a
Shedd Aquarium Society$1,50010%
The Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee$1,00010%
The American Saddlebred Legacy Foundatio$1,0001n/a
Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association$75020%
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois$50010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$30010%
Grant Park Orchestral Association$30010%
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras$3001n/a
Congregation Kneseth Israel$2501n/a
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$20010%
National Jewish Health$20010%
Streeterville Organization of Active Residents$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $291,141 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $206,873 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $56,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation: $40,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetChicago Maritime Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPeace of Mind Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAngelica Village: $6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe North Carolina Theatre: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElgin Symphony Orchestra Association: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Illinois: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrant Park Orchestral Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStreeterville Organization of Active Residents: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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 Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation

How much does Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation give?
Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $96,387 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Philanthropy (11%), Religion (10%).
Who are Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($291k), Lyric Opera of Chicago ($207k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($56k).
Does Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation based?
Rhoda & Henry Frank Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 38 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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