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Robert J Frisby Foundation at a glance

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Robert J Frisby Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$87k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

International$2.9MReligion$605kFood & Nutrition$370kHealth$270kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kHuman Services$200kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$26,923
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVE'S HOPE CORP$40,000
VARIOUS$26,923
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $250k → 26%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
OK
TX
FL
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 3 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
InternationalHealthHuman 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

  • CM
    CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.8M · revenue -31%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2017–2019 · $337k
  • SC
    ST CATHERINE OF SIENA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k

Funded once

  • FO
    Farm of the Child Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -14% · 66% of their budget
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • CC
    CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Medical Missions Outreach Inc

In 2005, medical missions outreach began pointing others to the great physician through an annual medical missions trip to the developing world by partnering with local churches to reach their communities with the gospel. now more than 20…

International
2
Mission Vision Inc

Mission vision has both an international focus and community based focus in western pennsylvania. on an international scale, it facilitates training of health care professionals and missionaries, promotes wellness and education, and…

Health
3
Medicine for Humanity

Medicine for Humanity is a medical care and teaching organization dedicated to restoring dignity, hope, and quality of life to women in the developing world. Founded in 1995 on the principle that ensuring the health of mothers leads to…

Health
4
MedGlobal Inc

MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…

Health
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
7
Hope International

Provide free medical assistance to poor people in 3rd world countries

International
8
Global Health Ministry

We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.

International
9
Christian Ministries International
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10
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
11
Medical Mission International - Usa

To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.

Religion
12
Haiti Eye Mission

Curing and preventing blindness: haiti eye mission is the only eye care team that travels to certain regions of the island of hispaniola with annual mission trips to fight preventable and treat curable blindness. the team provides eye…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ukrainian Diabetes Project. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $1,826,800 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INCFarm of the Child Inc: $500,000 · InternationalFarm of the Child IncKIDS FOR THE KINGDOM INC: $250,000 · InternationalKIDS FOR THE KINGDOM INCVISION FOR THE POOR: $250,000 · InternationalVISION FOR THE POOR+4 more: $110,000 · InternationalIndividual grant recipient: $336,688 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $250,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $250,000 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCFEEDING AMERICA: $250,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICARISE AGAINST HUNGER: $120,000 · OtherRISE AGAINST HUNGERCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC INC: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC …MARYKNOLL: $90,000 · OtherMARYKNOLLST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $41,923 · OtherCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesUkrainian Diabetes Project: $100,000 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $50,000 · HealthEVE'S HOPE: $40,000 · Health
International$2,936,800Other$1,488,611Human Services$350,000Health$190,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $1,826,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFarm of the Child Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetKIDS FOR THE KINGDOM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION FOR THE POOR: $250,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetUkrainian Diabetes Project: $100,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMercy Ships International: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVE'S HOPE: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Robert J Frisby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J Frisby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

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    How do I get to Robert J Frisby Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert J Frisby 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 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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