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The Frank Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$163k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2026
9
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$52,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
3
Total assets, FY2026
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations The Frank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving9$163k0%
FY20259$163k0%
FY20249$163k0%
FY202311$146k36%
FY202211$146k0%
FY202111$151k0%
FY202011$187kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$405kHealth$286kYouth Development$144kFood & Nutrition$74kArts & Culture$34kEnvironment$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arrupe Jesuit High School$214,0007n/a
Spectrum360$168,00070%
Escuela de Guadalupe Elementary School$128,0007n/a
Aim High for High School$112,00070%
The Growhaus$88,00071%
Hope Ignites Colorado$60,00042%
Global Kids Inc$58,00040%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$48,00030%
The Matheny School and Hospital Inc$48,00070%
California Poets in the Schools$24,00043%
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All grantees of The Frank Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arrupe Jesuit High School$214,0007n/a
Spectrum360$168,00070%
Escuela de Guadalupe Elementary School$128,0007n/a
Aim High for High School$112,00070%
The Growhaus$88,00071%
Hope Ignites Colorado$60,00042%
Global Kids Inc$58,00040%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$48,00030%
The Matheny School and Hospital Inc$48,00070%
California Poets in the Schools$24,00043%
National Outdoor Leadership School$13,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frank Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpectrum360: $168,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAim High for High School: $112,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Growhaus: $88,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHope Ignites Colorado: $60,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGlobal Kids Inc: $58,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $48,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Matheny School and Hospital Inc: $48,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Poets in the Schools: $24,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Denver FoundationCO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About The Frank Foundation

How much does The Frank Foundation give?
The Frank Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $163,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does The Frank Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (30%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are The Frank Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Arrupe Jesuit High School ($214k), Spectrum360 ($168k), Escuela de Guadalupe Elementary School ($128k).
Does The Frank Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Frank Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Mile High United Way Inc.
Where is The Frank Foundation based?
The Frank Foundation is based in TX.

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 15 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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