· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND | $100,000 |
| FREE ARTS | $100,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $100,000 |
| PW LIBRARY - CREATIVE READERS | $30,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $27,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $7,500 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK - SCHOLARSHIP PLUS | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bud Frankel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bud Frankel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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