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The Alfred and Hanna Fromm Fund at a glance

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The Alfred and Hanna Fromm Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$390k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MEducation$1.7MSocial Science$1.7MFood & Nutrition$475kInternational$433kHousing & Shelter$370kArts & Culture$337kCivil Rights$116kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $640k
  • $250k+1 grant · $390k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$390,000
FRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE$200,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$100,000
WILY NETWORK$100,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$100,000
NEWTON FOOD PANTRY$75,000
FEEDING AMERICA$65,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$45,000
INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIPS$30,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$20,000
CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE$15,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$15,000
PROJECT HOPE BOSTON$15,000
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 (FY20–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $15k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $15k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $15k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON: $15k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON: $15k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON: $15k → 16%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 33 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
22

Total granted

$4.8M
$805k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+53%

Still filing today

79%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +98%
  • NF
    NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue ×18
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE FOR
    one grant, 2017 · $485k
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -29%
  • FO
    Friends of the fromm institute for life
    one grant, 2018 · $80k
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
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
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Society of Univ Surgeons Foundation. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 61 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE: $1,170,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTEWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYFRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE FOR: $485,400 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE FORFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $300,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INC+34 more: $704,374 · Other+34 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $2,295,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF S…+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyTHE WILY NETWORK: $200,000 · EducationTHE WILY …HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $190,000 · EducationHISPANIC …UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100,000 · EducationUNITED NE…INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIPS: $60,000 · EducationINSTITUTE…PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $48,611 · EducationPETALUMA …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…+3 more: $24,000 · EducationNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $240,100 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $195,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionSave The Children Federation Inc: $300,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $85,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 · International+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $215,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $60,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $20,000 · Human Services
Other$3,659,774Philanthropy$2,295,250Education$662,611Food & Nutrition$475,100International$432,500Arts & Culture$215,000Human Services$175,000

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $2,295,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $240,100 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $215,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $200,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFeeding America: $195,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $190,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIPS: $60,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $48,611 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF UNIV SURGEONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LITERACY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFAR WEST DIVISION NSPS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $5,145 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,942 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $2,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAVEN PROJECT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $1,037 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCambridge Savings Cha…Combined Jewish Phila…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation 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 The Alfred and Hanna Fromm Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alfred and Hanna Fromm Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Project Hope Boston Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Alfred and Hanna Fromm Fund 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 61 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.

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