· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $27,000 |
| SHE READY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CRANBROOK SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS | $4,000 |
| MUSUEM OF CONTEMPORY ART | $3,500 |
| TU NIDITO | $1,300 |
| BENS BELLS | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $100 |
| THE LOFT | $90 |
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 (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSHE READY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +19%
- TNTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +33%
- BBBEN'S BELLS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SPSTEP PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $1k
- TMTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $145
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.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Tucson botanical gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and culture.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
The mission of the tucson family food project is to provide meals for children who are struggling with food insecurity, while teaching them how to cook food for themselves in their own homes.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 SHE READY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEN'S BELLS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lisa Frank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lisa Frank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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