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The Frye Foundation at a glance

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The Frye 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.

$244k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

61% of The Frye Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Cauze Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Frye Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $244k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
12
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21
3
’22
5
’23
5
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$261kInternational$195kPublic Benefit$130kCrime & Legal$106kArts & Culture$91kReligion$66kYouth Development$45kHuman Services$41kOther$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$12,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY INC$90,000
CAUZE CHARITABLE FUND$40,113
YWAM$32,290
NPH USA ( FKA FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS)$25,000
ONE4ALL CAHRITABLE FUND$20,000
FARESTART$12,500
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S$10,000
THE JOSHUA P WILLIAMS FOUNDATION$7,500
ISSAQUAH LACROSSE CLUB$2,500
WHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER$2,500
CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND$1,035
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$700
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 15%JOSHUA P WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%JOSHUA P WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%THE JOSHUA P WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER SEATTLE: $3k → 9%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
ID
MN
IL
NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
SC
DC
HI
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Frye Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Frye Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 13 repeat orgs$569k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
34

Total granted

$316k
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

54%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • COMMUNITY FOR YOUTH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +27%
  • NH
    NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • IL
    ISSAQUAH LACROSSE CLUB
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $106k · revenue +20%
  • C
    CAUZE
    one grant, 2018 · $85k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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 Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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2
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
3
Perigee Fund

Our mission is to shift policies and systems to increasingly value and embed supports for caregiver and infant mental health in the places where families are during pregnancy and early childhood. perigee is organized & operated as a…

Health
4
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
5
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
6
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
7
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
8
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
9
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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10
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
11
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
12
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa; the most unlike its peers is Arc of Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 56 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
13/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NPH USA ( FKA FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS): $109,210 · OtherNPH USA ( FKA FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS)CAUZE: $85,190 · OtherCAUZEYWAM: $63,456 · OtherYWAMIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYACHT AID GLOBAL: $34,686 · OtherYACHT AID GLOBALSEATTLE CHILDREN'S: $30,500 · OtherESPERANZA INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Other+39 more: $205,169 · Other+39 moreCAUZE CHARITABLE FUND: $272,613 · Public BenefitCAUZE CHARITABLE FUNDSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $106,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK…INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOSHUA P WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $34,275 · Human ServicesSAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,588 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOMES OF HOPE INC: $30,790 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $300 · Housing & ShelterYouth with a Mission New Beginnings Home: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL VISIONARIES: $2,582 · Youth Development
Other$603,211Public Benefit$272,613Crime & Legal$106,000Arts & Culture$90,000Human Services$37,863Housing & Shelter$31,090Youth Development$27,582

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 budgetCAUZE CHARITABLE FUND: $272,613 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JOSHUA P WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $34,275 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $30,790 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouth with a Mission New Beginnings Home: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOR YOUTH: $17,430 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFARESTART: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELLEVUE POLICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYACHTAID GLOBAL: $6,888 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetISSAQUAH LACROSSE CLUB: $5,580 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetARC OF JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,588 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL VISIONARIES: $2,582 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $1,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC: $300 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.

Seattle FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Frye Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frye 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Frye Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Frye 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 56 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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