· Private foundation
The Bud Frankel Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS CHOOSE | $175,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $150,000 |
| CAMBA - READY READERS | $150,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NY | $150,000 |
| HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND | $100,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| FREE ARTS | $100,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PW LIBRARY - CREATIVE READERS | $30,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $27,000 |
| CAMBA - READY READERS | $7,500 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK - SCHOLARSHIP PLUS | $7,500 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k 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
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG7× · 2017–2023 · $368k · revenue +24%
- AFAdvocates for Children of New York5× · 2019–2023 · $193k · revenue +44%
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FUND4× · 2020–2023 · $183k
Funded once
- FBFIRST BOOKone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -27%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +11%- JJAFCOone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
See schedule othe mission of harlem children's zone promise academy charter school is to ensure that children from under-served communities are academically, socially and emotionally ready to succeed in college and tomorrow's workplace.…
To provide high quality, standards-based academic programs for students, grades k-12.
To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of the access bronx charter school is to empower our children to achieve their greatest potential both as students and as members of their communities.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
Mott haven academy charter school empowers children in an educational environment that addresses and reduces the barriers to academic success through the integration of family support services with a rigorous college preparatory academic…
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harlem Children's Zone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bud Frankel Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Bud Frankel Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Bud Frankel Family 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.