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The Marissa and Greg Frankenfield Family Foundation at a glance

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The Marissa and Greg Frankenfield 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.

$372k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$891kHealth$178kEducation$71kScience & Tech$26kYouth Development$22kPhilanthropy$13kInternational$8kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$687k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA$200,000
SMART APPROACHES TO MARIJUANA$100,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD$25,000
MASONIC CANCER CENTER U OF M$20,000
YOUNG STORYTELLERS$10,000
ROSE CITY CENTER$10,000
PHILIPPINE SCHOLARS$2,500
EXCELSIOR LIONS CLUB$1,000
PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION$1,000
MOM'S HAVEN OF HOPE$500
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$500
COVENANT HOUSE$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$210
KENYA CHILDREN'S FUND$207
FEEDING AMERICA$100
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
CT
CA
UT
NE
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$970k · 7 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$970k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+1%

Still filing today

43%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHealthInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & 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

  • CM
    CHILDRENS MINNESOTA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $890k
  • TR
    TREXO ROBOTICS HOLDINGS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $26k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $25k

Funded once

  • FP
    Fridley Public Schools
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • MC
    MASONIC CANCER CENTER U OF MN
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +37%
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
Childs Place

The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…

Human Services
2
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
5
Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network

In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…

Crime & Legal
6
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
7
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
8
The Homes for Children Corporation

The mission of Homes for Children Corporation is to provide hope and healing to troubled youth who are at-risk abused and neglected so they can become independent productive adults.

Human Services
9
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
12
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Washburn Arts Council. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 18 of the 34 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS MINNESOTA: $890,000 · OtherCHILDRENS MINNESOTASMART APPROACHES TO MARIJUANA: $100,000 · OtherSMART APPROACHES TO MARIJUANA+19 more: $167,291 · Other+19 moreHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthRose City Center: $10,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $16,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc: $5,000 · EducationPHILIPPINE SCHOLARS: $4,500 · EducationWashburn Arts Council: $1,000 · EducationYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $7,772 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $5,128 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $1,075 · PhilanthropyMom's Haven of Hope: $500 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,157,291Health$35,000Education$26,500Youth Development$18,000Human Services$8,272Philanthropy$6,703Housing & Shelter$1,000

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 budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRose City Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $7,772 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $5,128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILIPPINE SCHOLARS: $4,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $2,535 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMom's Haven of Hope: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYA CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Marissa and Greg Frankenfield Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marissa and Greg Frankenfield Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 78%
  • Disability Rights Connecticut Inc: 78% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 34 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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