· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| SCHOODIC FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| SCHOOL OF ARTS FOR ALL | $5,000 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YELLOWHAMMER FUND | $5,000 |
| REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM | $5,000 |
| NYC SALT | $4,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| JUST THE PILL | $3,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SONOMA | $3,000 |
| VNS HEALTH | $2,500 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +80%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +79%- YFYellowhammer Fund4× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- SSSONOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- NVNEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMICS & CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ABACT BLUE GIFFORDS LAWone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 119 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NYC ISCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CREDO HIGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds PYLOS ARCHAEOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Schoodic Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Reporters Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Franz W Sichel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Franz W Sichel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
- Hht Foundation: 30% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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