Ohio · Private foundation
Sidney Frohman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $409k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Sidney Frohman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $407k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $433k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $455k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $471k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $406k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $357k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $437k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $459k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandusky State Theatre Inc | $176,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Oh-Go | $165,400 | 9 | 9% |
| Safe Harbour Domestic Violence Shelter Inc | $131,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Back to the Wild Inc | $128,300 | 9 | 3% |
| Care & Share Inc of Erie County | $116,000 | 8 | 11% |
| United Way of Erie County Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Sandusky Blue Streak Boosters Club | $100,000 | 2 | 47% |
| Cancer Services Fka Cancer Services of Erie County | $86,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Firelands Symphony Orchestra | $80,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Stein Hospice Service Inc | $76,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sidney Frohman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Mylander Fdn-2001 · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · Randolph J and Estelle M Dorn Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Murray & Murray Charitable Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation · The Twenty First Century Foundation · Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation · United Way of Erie County Inc
How this is measured
About Sidney Frohman Foundation
- How much does Sidney Frohman Foundation give?
- Sidney Frohman Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $409,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sidney Frohman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Sidney Frohman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sandusky State Theatre Inc ($176k), Oh-Go ($165k), Safe Harbour Domestic Violence Shelter Inc ($131k).
- Does Sidney Frohman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sidney Frohman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sidney Frohman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mylander Fdn-2001, The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation, Erie County Community Foundation.
- Where is Sidney Frohman Foundation based?
- Sidney Frohman Foundation is based in OH.
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