New York · Private foundation
The Franklin Fund
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.
- $185k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Franklin Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $185k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $136k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $179k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $89k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $137k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epiphany Magazine Inc | $100,500 | 5 | 20% |
| The North Shore Land Alliance Inc | $82,720 | 6 | 1% |
| The Center for Victims of Torture | $65,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Syda Foundation | $62,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $51,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Common Ground | $44,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dharmata Foundation | $32,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Kehillath Shalom Synagogue | $27,398 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Franklin Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
About The Franklin Fund
- How much does The Franklin Fund give?
- The Franklin Fund reported 25 grants totaling $184,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Franklin Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (13%).
- Who are The Franklin Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Epiphany Magazine Inc ($101k), The North Shore Land Alliance Inc ($83k), The Center for Victims of Torture ($66k).
- Does The Franklin Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Franklin Fund 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Franklin Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Franklin Fund based?
- The Franklin Fund is based in NY.
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