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Richard Frank Foundation at a glance

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Richard 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.2MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$138kPhilanthropy$75kYouth Development$46kReligion$30kFood & Nutrition$26kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Illinois Foundation$2,500,000
Napa Valley Festival Association$250,000
American Film Institute$200,000
Womens Guild Cedars Sinai Medicial Center$25,000
Cameo Cinema Foundation$10,000
Temple Beth Hillel$10,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of St Helena and Calistoga$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Boys and Girls Clubs of St Helena and Calistoga: $33k → 9%Napa Valley Festival Association: $250k → 9%SNIP (Mobile Spay and Neuter): $20k → 12%Temple Beth Hillel: $10k → 14%Kering Foundation In The Americas Inc: $10k → 17%University of Illinois Foundation: $2.5M → 19%Three Square: $10k → 13%St Helena Hospital Foundation: $25k → 9%Napa Valley Festival Association: $200k → 9%Monterey County Sheriffs Advisory Council: $5k → 12%American Film Institute: $200k → 14%University of Illinois Foundation: $987k → 19%Cameo Cinema Foundation: $10k → 9%Napa Valley Festival Association: $110k → 9%American Film Institute: $30k → 14%University of Illinois Foundation: $250k → 19%St Helena Hospital Foundation: $10k → 9%Temple Beth Hillel: $10k → 9%American Film Institute: $30k → 14%Collective Napa Valley: $10k → 9%Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $1k → 14%Boys and Girls Clubs of St Helena and Calistoga: $10k → 9%Womens Guild Cedars Sinai Medicial Center: $25k → 14%Napa Communities Firewise Foundation: $5k → 9%Boys and Girls Clubs of St Helena and Calistoga: $3k → 9%OLE Health Foundation: $25k → 9%Napa Youth Soccer League Inc: $1k → 9%See Attached List: $2.0M → 9%See Attached List: $328k → 9%See Attached List: $169k → 9%See Attached List: $162k → 9%OLE Health Foundation: $25k → 9%Cope Family Center: $5k → 9%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 8 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$6.5M
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationHuman 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 Illinois Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +74%
  • NV
    NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $768k · revenue +61%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +31%
  • S(
    SNIP (Mobile Spay and Neuter)
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +26%
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
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Saint Agnes Medical Foundation

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical foundation is a member of saint agnes medical…

Health
4
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
7
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

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10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Children Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The James Beard Foundation 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

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Illinois Foundation: $5,237,281 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $768,484 · Arts & CultureNAPA VALLEY FESTIV…THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $320,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM …NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWomens Guild Cedars Sinai Medicial Center: $25,000 · OtherTemple Beth Hillel: $20,000 · OtherSNIP (Mobile Spay and Neuter): $20,000 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · OtherCameo Cinema Foundation: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherTemple Beth Hillel - Rabbi James Kaufman Fund: $10,000 · OtherKERING FOUNDATION IN THE AMERICAS INC: $10,000 · OtherCOLLABRIA CARE: $9,500 · Other+6 more: $26,180 · OtherSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $40,000 · HealthAIM Youth Mental Health: $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $3,500 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $45,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHREE SQUARE: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$5,237,281Arts & Culture$1,088,484Philanthropy$125,000Other$156,680Health$53,500Youth Development$45,600Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 Illinois Foundation: $5,237,281 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $768,484 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $320,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $45,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERING FOUNDATION IN THE AMERICAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOLLABRIA CARE: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION: $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCope Family Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNapa Youth Soccer League Inc Napa United: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Craig and Kathryn Hal…Marin Community Found…Npt Charitable Asset …McNabb FoundationMcMinn FoundationE Richard Jones Famil…Napa Valley Vintners …The Skyscrape Foundat…Peter a & Vernice H G…Community Foundation …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Craig and Kathryn Hall FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Npt Charitable Asset Trust · McNabb Foundation · McMinn Foundation · E Richard Jones Family Foundation Mr E Richard Jones · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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