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The Francine A LeFrak Foundation Inc

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.

$517k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$6.2MEmployment$1.0MInternational$493kSocial Science$215kHousing & Shelter$114kArts & Culture$106kScience & Tech$100kCommunity Improvement$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACE INSTITUTE$100,000
LEAP INC$100,000
THE MILKEN INSTITUTE$100,000
BEDLAM INC$75,000
BRIDGE2RWANDA INC$35,000
BRIDGE2RWANDA INC$35,000
LEAP INC$34,000
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN$25,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$10,000
NEW JERSEY REENTRY$3,484
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 (FY18–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 12%JENESSE CENTER INC: $13k → 14%NEW JERSEY REENTRY: $100k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $13k → 14%NEW JERSEY REENTRY: $3k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $49k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $50k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $9k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $1k → 17%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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
AR
DC
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 13 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$7.8M
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+42%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +48%
  • LI
    LEAP INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $324k · revenue +44%
  • BI
    BRIDGE2RWANDA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $307k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UF
    UNFCU FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $66k · revenue +91%
  • NI
    NEST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • PO
    POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +56%
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.

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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
3
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
4
Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/a the Endeavor Initiative Inc)

Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.

International
5
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
6
Women's World Banking Inc

The mission of women's world banking is to expand the economicassets, participation and power of low-income women and theirhouseholds by helping them access financial services, knowledge andmarkets. for more information, see schedule o.

International
7
Women for Women International

In countries affected by conflict and war, women for women international (women for women) supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and…

International
8
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Stichting to Promote Women's World Banking

The mission of stichting to promote women's world banking is to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge and markets. for more…

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12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; the most unlike its peers is Womens Entrepreneurship Day Organization 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

31 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. 31 of the 34 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)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNARD COLLEGE: $6,031,297 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE+2 more: $265,500 · EducationGRACE INSTITUTE: $320,250 · OtherGRACE INST…THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $215,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN…OPERATION HOPE INC: $53,980 · OtherOPERATION …FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $50,800 · OtherFASHION IN…MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $25,000 · Other+11 more: $79,197 · Other+11 moreBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $306,600 · InternationalNEST INC: $50,025 · InternationalINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $31,655 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalLEAP INC: $324,000 · Housing & ShelterPER SCHOLAS INC: $250,000 · EmploymentJVS SOCAL: $15,000 · Employment+1 more: $1,500 · EmploymentWOMEN IN NEED INC: $114,000 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY REENTRY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $103,484 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesBedlam Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KING'S TRUST USA INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,296,797Other$744,227International$398,280Housing & Shelter$324,000Employment$266,500Human Services$242,484Philanthropy$128,000

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 budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $6,031,297 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLEAP INC: $324,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE: $320,250 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $306,600 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $215,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $114,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY REENTRY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $103,484 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBedlam Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNFCU FOUNDATION INC: $65,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $53,980 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $50,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEST INC: $50,025 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $31,655 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KING'S TRUST USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMODACARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAY ORGANIZATION INC: $2,697 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUN Women For Peace Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING: $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.

Jewish Communal FundTides FoundationNational Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Francine A LeFrak Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Francine A LeFrak Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Francine A LeFrak Foundation Inc 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 34 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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