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The Joel Frantzman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Joel Frantzman Family 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.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$79kEducation$43kArts & Culture$39kCivil Rights$23kInternational$22kHealth$15kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
8
States reached
$645k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,000
COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART$1,500
FRENCHMAN'S BAY CONSERVANCY$1,000
PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CRABTREE NECT LAND TRUST$1,000
THE GOOD SHEPARD$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
EMMAUS HOMELESS SHELTER$1,000
HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK$1,000
DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVENCY$1,000
RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$1,000
MCHT (MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST)$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $3k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $1k → 11%FRIENDS IN ACTION: $1k → 11%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

ME
VT
MN
NY
MA
NV
WY
SD
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 47 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
29

Total granted

$266k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+23%

Still filing today

74%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • FB
    Frenchman Bay Conservancy
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +249%
  • FI
    FRIENDS IN ACTION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +39%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    7× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • EH
    EMMAUS HOMELSS SHELTER
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF HANCOCK COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
4
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
5
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
6
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
7
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
10
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment
11
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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12
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

61 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. 61 of the 96 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
49/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU OF MAINE: $13,394 · OtherACLU OF MAINEAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVATORY: $12,450 · OtherAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVATORYTHE GRAND: $12,000 · OtherTHE GRANDEMMAUS HOMELESS SHELTER: $5,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,300 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNOTHOLOGY: $5,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+51 more: $62,498 · Other+51 moreFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $17,000 · EnvironmentFrenchman Bay ConservancyMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $9,450 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trus…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $8,250 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYCRABTREE NECK LAND TRUST: $7,000 · EnvironmentCRABTREE NECK LAND TRUSTMaine Island Trail Association: $5,700 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail Associ…DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY: $5,500 · EnvironmentDOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVA…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $5,200 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council…MAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST: $4,750 · EnvironmentMAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHE…Maine Audubon Society: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $2,575 · EnvironmentDowneast Chapter of Maine Audubon: $2,500 · Environment+4 more: $1,485 · EnvironmentMIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS: $20,600 · EducationMIDDLE EAST CENTER…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,750 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF CO…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATI…University of Maine Foundation: $4,000 · EducationUniversity of Main…BARD COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $3,700 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN CO…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $3,200 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEG…+3 more: $1,525 · EducationNORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $4,250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $4,100 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of Art: $1,115 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,634 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $9,250 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS IN ACTION: $11,310 · Human ServicesGood Shepherd Food Bank: $7,750 · Food & Nutrition
Other$142,892Environment$72,410Education$52,775Arts & Culture$19,599Crime & Legal$12,750Human Services$11,310Food & Nutrition$7,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS: $20,600 over 5y, 57% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $17,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION: $11,310 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $9,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $9,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $8,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $7,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRABTREE NECK LAND TRUST: $7,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $5,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY: $5,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $5,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST: $4,750 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $4,250 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $4,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $4,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Equity Alliance: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $3,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $2,575 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDowneast Chapter of Maine Audubon: $2,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDowneast Horizons Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Club: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $1,115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChihuahuan Desert Research Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $534 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Citizens for Clean Elections: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ↗
  • Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds CRABTREE NECK LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
  • Who funds DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds Health Equity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Downeast Chapter of Maine Audubon ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Conservation Fo…Onion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Murray Charitable Tru…Quimby Family Foundat…Shell USA Company Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…
Maine Community Foundation IncME36.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · Quimby Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Joel Frantzman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joel Frantzman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report 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.

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 96 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home