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The Franklin Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$193kArts & Culture$141kEnvironment$116kReligion$89kCivil Rights$63kPublic Benefit$47kHealth$46kPhilanthropy$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL$6,250
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$6,250
MACDOWELL$5,000
DHARMATA FOUNDATION$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITEE$5,000
THE FOOD DEPOT$2,500
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%AL OTRO LADO: $1k → 14%THE FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $200 → 12%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $5k → 6%CENTER ON HALSTED: $1k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $1k → 14%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $6k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $3k → 7%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

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$704k · 25 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
45

Total granted

$704k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+1%

Still filing today

72%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EM
    EPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +37%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +23%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • EF
    Erie Family Health Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue -9%
  • United Help Ukraine Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -81%
  • JP
    JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +23%
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
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
3
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
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
6
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

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…

Civil Rights
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Free Press

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Federation for American Immigration Reform

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.

International
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Advocates Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 85 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
37/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC: $100,500 · OtherEPIPHANY MAGAZINE INCSYDA FOUNDATION: $62,500 · OtherSYDA FOUNDATIONDHARMATA FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherDHARMATA FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION INTEGRATIVE MEDITATION: $30,000 · OtherFOUNDATION INTEGRATIVE MEDITATIONKEHILLATH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: $27,398 · OtherKEHILLATH SHALOM SYNAGOGUEPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $23,950 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · OtherErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $19,000 · Other+42 more: $107,750 · Other+42 moreTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $65,500 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $51,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES …International Rescue Committee INC: $47,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Comm…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federat…+6 more: $8,000 · InternationalTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $82,720 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHORE…ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $15,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL I…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURC…+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $8,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Civil Rights+3 more: $3,250 · Civil RightsCenter for Common Ground: $44,000 · Public BenefitREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $6,250 · Human ServicesUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT: $2,500 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LADO: $1,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $350 · Human ServicesTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$417,098International$194,500Environment$115,720Civil Rights$60,750Public Benefit$44,000Human Services$20,600Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC: $100,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $82,720 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $65,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $44,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $19,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUBLIN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake the Road New York: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF RAYNHAM HALL INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDecoda Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Raymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for Good
Marin Community FoundationCA14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Franklin Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Franklin Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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