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The Franks Family Foundation at a glance

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The Franks Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$356kHealth$228kAnimals$177kReligion$161kYouth Development$108kHousing & Shelter$79kEducation$72kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$563k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA NORTHERN UTAH$91,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$35,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$15,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$15,000
SPY HOP$12,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH$11,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE$7,000
SALT LAKE CITY MISSION$7,000
CACHE HUMANE SOCIETY$7,000
PREBORN$7,000
JUDGE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$7,000
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$5,500
ST JUDE$5,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $3k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%PREBORN: $7k → 16%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $3k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $2k → 8%PREBORN: $5k → 16%GROW GOOD INC: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%PREBORN: $1k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%YMCA NORTHERN UTAH: $91k → 8%MILLIES PRINCESS FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%MILLIES PRINCESS FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%AFRICA IS LIFE CHANGING: $500 → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $8k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $250 → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $250 → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $15k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $15k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $10k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $3k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $2k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $2k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $2k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $1k → 8%ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%ROAD HOME: $7k → 8%ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $100k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 8%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
AZ
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 55 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
32

Total granted

$1.2M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+13%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    4× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +50%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +42%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • GI
    GROWGOOD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +107%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • BF
    BEST FRIENDS
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Utah Animal Adoption Center

The organization is dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation, eliminating euthanasia as a means of controlling pet overpopulation, and preventing animal suffering in utah.

Animals
2
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
3
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
4
Utah Health & Human Rights Project

The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.

Health
5
Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.

Crime & Legal
6
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
7
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
10
Humane Society of Yuma

To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.

Animals
11
Globus Relief

The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.

International
12
Utah Navajo Health System Inc

To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Africa Is Life Changing. 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

59 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. 59 of the 100 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
48/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE: $63,500 · OtherST JUDEJE COSGRIFF MEMORIAL CATHOLIC SCHOO: $51,250 · OtherJE COSGRIFF MEMORIAL CATHOLIC SCHOOSHRINERS HOSPITAL: $49,500 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $40,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUTAH FOOD BANK: $31,500 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKCHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY: $25,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $21,000 · OtherSHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $20,900 · Other+52 more: $260,783 · Other+52 moreNeighborhood House Association: $135,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House AssociationYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $91,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Associati…Adopt-A-Native Elder: $48,500 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native ElderTHE ROAD HOME: $31,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMERESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE IN…Mission Pre-Born Inc: $13,000 · Human Services+12 more: $35,500 · Human Services+12 moreThe Fistula Foundation: $65,500 · HealthThe Fistula…Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $31,500 · HealthRonald McDo…HAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthHAYESTOUGH …Wasatch Homeless Health Care: $14,750 · HealthWasatch Hom…THE SHARING PLACE: $7,750 · HealthTHE SHARING…+1 more: $1,750 · HealthBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $57,010 · AnimalsBEST FRIEN…HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $51,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOC…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $13,250 · AnimalsAFRICAN WI…LOVELEO RESCUE: $8,000 · AnimalsLOVELEO RE…+4 more: $4,800 · AnimalsSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $100,850 · Youth DevelopmentSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $19,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,250 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $26,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,300 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,800 · Public Benefit
Other$563,683Human Services$376,500Health$136,250Animals$134,060Youth Development$100,850Education$51,750Public Benefit$34,600

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 budgetNeighborhood House Association: $135,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $100,850 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $91,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $65,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $57,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $51,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder: $48,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $31,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $31,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $26,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $14,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $13,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEPAL CLEFT & BURN CENTER INC: $11,250 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGROWGOOD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOVELEO RESCUE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SHARING PLACE: $7,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCACHE HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJECT: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $1,500 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds HAYESTOUGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEPAL CLEFT & BURN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWGOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds LOVELEO RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Larry H Miller and Ga…McCarthey Family Foun…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Willard L Eccles Char…Kennecott Utah Copper…The Miner FoundationIhc Health Services I…The Archer Family Cha…Lawrence & Janet Dee …
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Archer Family Charitable Corp · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Franks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Franks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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