Arizona · Private foundation
The Lisa Frank 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.
- $52k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Lisa Frank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 9 | $52k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $39k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $32k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $37k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $7k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| She Ready Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Tu Nidito Children and Family Services Inc | $7,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Ben's Bells Inc | $3,150 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa de Los Ninos | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Inc | $1,350 | 3 | 0% |
| Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loft Cinema Inc Fka Tucson Cinema Foundation Inc | $790 | 4 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Southern Arizona | $450 | 4 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lisa Frank 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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400 · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Lisa Frank Foundation
- How much does The Lisa Frank Foundation give?
- The Lisa Frank Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $51,990 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Lisa Frank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Youth Development (30%), Human Services (23%).
- Who are The Lisa Frank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: She Ready Foundation ($35k), Tu Nidito Children and Family Services Inc ($8k), Ben's Bells Inc ($3k).
- Does The Lisa Frank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lisa Frank 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 Lisa Frank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Donald Pitt Family Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.
- Where is The Lisa Frank Foundation based?
- The Lisa Frank Foundation is based in AZ.
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