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The Frank E Witt Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Frank E Witt 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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$283kEducation$270kHealth$207kPublic Benefit$175kCivil Rights$135kArts & Culture$95kPhilanthropy$90kHuman Services$73kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$23,418
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH$23,418
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%CATHOLIC ANSWERS: $60k → 11%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%FUND FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $15k → 16%QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%BARUCH COLLEGE: $30k → 17%JUDICIAL WATCH: $15k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $13k → 11%CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: $30k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15k → 14%YOUNG AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $65k → 6%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 7%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 9%MACULAR DEGENERATION: $25k → 8%THE NEST CENTER FOR WOMEN: $15k → 15%CATHOLIC ANSWERS: $20k → 11%QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 11%ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM: $20k → 6%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC ANSWERS: $20k → 11%QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM: $20k → 6%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC ANSWERS: $20k → 11%QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $15k → 7%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $15k → 9%CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 14%ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $25k → 14%FUND FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $15k → 14%FUND FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $15k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%CATO FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%CATO INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH: $65k → 13%CATO INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH: $23k → 13%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH: $20k → 13%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH: $20k → 13%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH: $15k → 13%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

MI
NY
IA
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 27 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+21%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic BenefitCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CA
    CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +12%
  • CL
    CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +65%
  • QC
    QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue +21%
  • CF
    CATO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +15%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
7
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
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
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Fund for American Studies. 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH: $143,418 · OtherST MARGARET MARY CHURCHCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $120,000 · OtherCATHOLIC ANSWERS INCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCYoung America's Foundation: $65,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONBARUCH COLLEGE: $52,500 · OtherBARUCH COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $47,500 · OtherTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $47,500 · OtherFUND FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $45,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: $45,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $42,500 · OtherYOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM: $40,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $37,500 · OtherCATO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Other+8 more: $112,784 · Other+8 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $52,500 · HealthAMERICAN CA…AdventHealth Foundation Inc: $47,500 · HealthAdventHealt…Orlando Health Foundation Inc: $47,500 · HealthOrlando Hea…American Heart Association Inc: $14,500 · HealthAmerican He…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITA…Leadership Institute: $30,000 · Public BenefitLeadership…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL W…CATO INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTI…CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS: $95,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $30,000 · Civil RightsMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $95,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25,000 · Education
Other$983,702Health$162,000Public Benefit$150,000Civil Rights$125,000Arts & Culture$95,000Human Services$35,000Crime & Legal$30,000Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS: $95,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $47,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $12,500 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.

  • Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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 36 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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