Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Franz W Sichel 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.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 57
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Franz W Sichel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 60 | $122k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $112k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $138k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $117k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $87k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $102k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC Ischool Parents Association Inc | $59,500 | 7 | 21% |
| Sonoma State University Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sonoma State University | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $24,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Credo High Foundation | $18,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Yellowhammer Fund | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($221k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Franz W Sichel Foundation 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · American Express Foundation · Open Society Institute · Boston Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
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About The Franz W Sichel Foundation
- How much does The Franz W Sichel Foundation give?
- The Franz W Sichel Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $129,797 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 57 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Franz W Sichel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (15%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Franz W Sichel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: NYC Ischool Parents Association Inc ($60k), Sonoma State University Foundation ($50k), Redwood Empire Food Bank ($26k).
- Does The Franz W Sichel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Franz W Sichel 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Franz W Sichel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust, American Express Foundation.
- Where is The Franz W Sichel Foundation based?
- The Franz W Sichel Foundation is based in MA.
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