New Jersey · Private foundation
The Franken Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $133k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $935k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations The Franken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterEducationOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $133k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $100k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $46k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $40k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $95k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $53k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Arts & Culture$99kEducation$64kInternational$56kHealth$37kYouth Development$25kHousing & Shelter$23kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studentsponsor Partners Inc | $24,600 | 2 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Urban Pathways Inc | $12,588 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studentsponsor Partners Inc | $24,600 | 2 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Urban Pathways Inc | $12,588 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sylvia's Children Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Several Sources Shelters Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Franken Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 19.
About The Franken Family Foundation
- How much does The Franken Family Foundation give?
- The Franken Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $132,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Franken Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (19%), International (16%).
- Who are The Franken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Studentsponsor Partners Inc ($25k), International Rescue Committee INC ($20k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($20k).
- Does The Franken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Franken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is The Franken Family Foundation based?
- The Franken Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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