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The Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$351k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.1MHealth$35kFood & Nutrition$35kEducation$6kMembership Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$540
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$350,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG$350,000
LIGHTHOUSE GUILD$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE LITTLE THEATRE GROUP OF BUTLER PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 9%CHAMBER MUSIC PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 16%LANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%THE GIVE BETTER FUND: $540 → 10%MARIDON MUSEUM: $100 → 9%DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 16%THE ELYSABETH KLEINHANS THEATRICAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 16%YORK THEATER COMPANY INC: $3k → 17%ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CONSERVANCY INC: $1k → 17%THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC: $108k → 17%NATIONAL ARTS CLUB: $13k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $1k → 17%NATIONAL ARTS CLUB: $8k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG: $951k → 17%FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG: $900k → 17%FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG: $701k → 17%THE FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG: $350k → 17%A PRECIOUS FEW LLC: $40k → 17%THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $35k → 17%THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%BROADWAY CARES-EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $35k → 17%MINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $5k → 17%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 3 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$2.9M
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionMembership BenefitPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • FR
    FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +50% · 99% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue -56%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $108k · revenue +130%
  • AP
    A PRECIOUS FEW LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +2%
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
The Kranzberg Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
3
Foundation for Modern Opera
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4
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
5
Bow Street Theatre Trust
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6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…

—
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
Americans for the Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

—
11
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
12
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Theatre Company Inc; the most unlike its peers is Frederick R Koch Foundation of Austria Gemeinnutzige Privatstiftung. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG: $2,902,180 · Arts & CultureFREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNGThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $108,250 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $30,629 · Arts & CultureA PRECIOUS FEW LLC: $39,602 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $34,951 · OtherTHE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB: $20,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Other+2 more: $1,540 · OtherGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $34,950 · Food & NutritionTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 · Membership BenefitTHE ELYSABETH KLEINHANS THEATRICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyST BARTHOLOMEW'S CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$3,041,059Other$102,093Food & Nutrition$34,950Membership Benefit$5,000Philanthropy$2,500Environment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREDERICK R KOCH FOUNDATION OF AUSTRIA GEMEINNUTZIGE PRIVATSTIFTUNG: $2,902,180 over 4y, 99% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $108,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $34,951 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $34,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SONGBOOK ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $3,029 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYork Theatre Company Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELYSABETH KLEINHANS THEATRICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE GROUP OF BUTLER PA: $2,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC PITTSBURGH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST BARTHOLOMEW'S CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVE BETTER FUND: $540 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARIDON MUSEUM: $100 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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.
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    How do I get to The Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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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