· Private foundation
Sidney Frohman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANDUSKY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| BACK TO THE WILD INC | $35,000 |
| CARE AND SHARE OF ERIE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $20,000 |
| SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| OHGO | $15,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE CO | $15,000 |
| FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY HURON UNIT | $14,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING | $10,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| WABASH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SSSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +101%
- OOH-GO9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue ×13
- SHSAFE HARBOUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SBSANDUKY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $51k
- SLSANDUSKY LIBRARY FOLLET HOUSE FDNone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RBRUTHAFORD B HAYES PRES CENTERone grant, 2017 · $48k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.
The mission of the erie cancer wellness center is to support those living with cancer and the people that care for them through free of charge programs and services that promote physical, emotional and mental healing.
To improve the region's quality of life and economic competitiveness in order to position it as the greatest destination on the great lakes to live, work, and invest.
Empowering lives through employment pathways that foster independence and personal growth to build strong communities.
The erie community foundation works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
To develop and implement a marketing plan to grow the region's tourism economy through promotion of the region and thereby increase visitor spending in the region.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To prevent cruelty to all animals through public education on thier humane treatment and to provide love, care, shelter and advovacy for companion animals in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OH-GO ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE WILD INC ↗
- Who funds CARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY BLUE STREAK BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES FKA CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sidney Frohman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.