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Sidney Frohman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sidney Frohman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$409k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$717kHuman Services$389kFood & Nutrition$389kHealth$239kPublic Benefit$180kAnimals$165kYouth Development$161kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $314k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANDUSKY BOARD OF EDUCATION$40,000
BACK TO THE WILD INC$35,000
SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE$25,000
CARE AND SHARE OF ERIE COUNTY$25,000
SAFE HARBOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$20,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$20,000
SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
OHGO$15,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE CO$15,000
SALVATION ARMY HURON UNIT$14,000
CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES$10,000
KINSHIP INC$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TOLE$10,000
STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC$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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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC: $21k → 11%CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES: $19k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $15k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $15k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $10k → 11%CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%SERVING OUR SENIORS: $10k → 11%CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES: $7k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%STEIN HOSPICE SERVICES: $5k → 11%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 57 repeat orgs$358k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
29

Total granted

$3.4M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+5%

Still filing today

37%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SS
    SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +101%
  • O
    OH-GO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue ×13
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANDUKY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
  • SL
    SANDUSKY LIBRARY FOLLET HOUSE FDN
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RB
    RUTHAFORD B HAYES PRES CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $48k
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
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

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.

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2
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
3
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
4
Library Association of Sandusky Ohio

Giving all people opportunities to enrich their lives.

Education
5
Erie Cancer and Wellness Foundation dba - Erie Cancer Wellness Center

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.

Health
6
Greater Sandusky Partnership

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.

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7
Goodwill Industries of Erie Huron Ottawa and Sandusky Counties Inc

Empowering lives through employment pathways that foster independence and personal growth to build strong communities.

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8
Erie Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
9
Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc

Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Health
10
Lake Erie Shores and Islands

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.

Community Improvement
11
Ohio Hills Health Services

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…

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12
Niagara County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 92 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANDUSKY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $466,000 · OtherSANDUSKY BOARD OF EDUCATIONHAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY MUSEUM: $200,087 · OtherHAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY MUSEUMSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $162,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKSAFE HARBOUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC: $131,000 · OtherCARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY: $116,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $105,000 · Other+72 more: $1,694,152 · Other+72 moreSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC: $176,000 · Arts & CultureSANDUSKY CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC: $21,800 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOH-GO: $165,400 · Public BenefitBACK TO THE WILD INC: $128,300 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY: $37,100 · AnimalsSTEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $76,000 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR SENIORS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHI LIVING COMMUNITIES: $35,700 · Human ServicesSANDUSKY BLUE STREAK BOOSTERS CLUB: $100,000 · EducationSANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationWabash College: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationKINSHIP INCORPORATED: $67,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,874,739Arts & Culture$202,800Public Benefit$165,400Animals$165,400Human Services$161,700Education$161,000Crime & Legal$67,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC: $176,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetOH-GO: $165,400 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC: $131,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetBACK TO THE WILD INC: $128,300 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCARE & SHARE INC OF ERIE COUNTY: $116,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetSANDUSKY BLUE STREAK BOOSTERS CLUB: $100,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetCANCER SERVICES FKA CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY: $86,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $80,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSTEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC: $76,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKINSHIP INCORPORATED: $67,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH MENTORING: $55,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetSERVING OUR SENIORS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetABILITY WORKS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY: $37,100 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCHI LIVING COMMUNITIES: $35,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $30,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFIRELANDS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEER CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY: $24,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSANDUSKY CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC: $21,800 over 6y, 28% of budgetEDISON BIRTHPLACE ASSOCIATION: $21,752 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetWabash College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO EDUCATION COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBluffton University: $1,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Mylander Fdn-2001The Michelle Wightman…Erie County Community…Randolph J and Estell…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…The Cleveland Foundat…The Murray & Murray C…The Albert G & Olive …Sam S Stein and Rose …The Twenty First Cent…Patrick Murray and Lo…United Way of Erie Co…
The Mylander Fdn-2001OH55.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 92 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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