· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDN | $23,250 |
| EPIPHANY MAGAZINE | $15,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION INTEGRATIVE MEDITATION | $12,000 |
| THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| KEHILLATH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE | $10,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $8,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $6,250 |
| REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL | $6,250 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITEE | $5,000 |
| MACDOWELL | $5,000 |
| DHARMATA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EMEPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +37%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE5× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +23%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- EFErie Family Health Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue -9%
- CACANAL ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $5k
United Help Ukraine Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -81%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Community Cinema Club Inc Dba Cinema Arts Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Common Ground ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DUBLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Franklin Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.