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The Marshall Frankel 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.

$458k
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$393kHuman Services$87kReligion$56kEnvironment$42kEducation$33kYouth Development$26kRecreation & Sports$23kAnimals$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 60 grants below total $379,090 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $458,490 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jacob Burns Film Center$50,000
Center For Coastal Studies$30,000
Sun Valley Museum of Arts$25,000
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors$25,000
Groove With Me, Inc.$16,000
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary$15,000
Chicago Int'l Puppet Theater Festival$10,000
The Sage School$10,000
Upaya Zen Center, Inc.$10,000
Rehabilitation Through The Arts$10,000
Art21 Inc$10,000
Culture For One Inc$10,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art$10,000
Sun Valley Playwright's Residency Inc$10,000
The Gleanings Foundation$10,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$410k · 26 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
30

Total granted

$410k
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+8%

Still filing today

65%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CF
    CULTURE FOR ONE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +113%
  • JB
    JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +23%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $31k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • EC
    Educational Center for Arts
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IC
    INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -63%
  • HF
    Hometown Film Corp
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
3
New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education
4
Stella Adler Studio of Acting

The studio's mission is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
8
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
9
Center for Arts Design and Social Research Incorporated

The center for arts, design and social research is a private, nonprofit institution of higher education that provides instruction in and conducts research on the relationship of art and design to global societies. the center offers…

Education
10
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
11
California Institute of the Arts

Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blaine County First Responder Support Team Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Advocacy and …Professional Dance CompaniesCommunity Arts CentersCharter and Independent Sch…Government Accountability &…Girls Stem Education Progra…Community Hospital SystemsFood Pantries and AssistanceIndigenous Community Develo…College Foundation SupportVolunteer Fire & RescueClassical Music OrchestrasChristian Outreach Ministri…Community Theater CompaniesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Childhood Cancer SupportYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,700

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
31/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sun Valley Museum of Arts — $50,600 · OtherSun Valley Museum of ArtsChapel of Sacred Mirrors — $35,000 · OtherChapel of Sacred MirrorsEducational Center for Arts — $25,000 · OtherEducational Center for ArtsAlvin Ailey Dance Theatre Foundation — $25,000 · OtherAlvin Ailey Dance Theatre FoundationHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $21,000 · OtherHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INCHometown Film Corp — $20,000 · OtherHometown Film CorpVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $20,000 · OtherVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INCHOPE — $20,000 · OtherHOPEWellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary — $16,000 · Other+37 more — $133,350 · Other+37 moreCULTURE FOR ONE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURE FOR ONEJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INCINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTSSUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY INCChicago International Puppet Theater Festival — $13,798 · Arts & CultureREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureART21 INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $44,440 · Arts & Culture+13 moreGROOVE WITH ME INC — $16,000 · EducationTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $3,500 · EducationThe Space Idaho Inc — $3,500 · EducationSUN VALLEY WELLNESS INSTITUTE — $3,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE — $2,500 · EducationBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $31,000 · EnvironmentWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 · Environment+2 more — $1,500 · EnvironmentMIND & LIFE INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Human ServicesFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Civil RightsMADRE INC — $5,000 · International
Other$365,950Arts & Culture$260,238Education$41,250Environment$40,000Human Services$21,500Civil Rights$6,000International$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCULTURE FOR ONE — $60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $31,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY INC — $22,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE — $20,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetGROOVE WITH ME INC — $16,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetChicago International Puppet Theater Festival — $13,798 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMIND & LIFE INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GLEANINGS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetART21 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL — $7,240 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESCOTT COLLEGE INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEM FROM DANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Space Idaho Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIBET HOUSE US INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlaine County First Responder Support Team Inc — $1,750 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetShoshone Project Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTACONIC OPERA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Hyde and Watson F…Spur Community Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…Boswell Family Founda…The Springcreek Found…The Cowles Charitable…Pinkerton FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Shubert Foundatio…Idaho Community Found…Seattle FoundationSam and Peggy Grossma…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Boswell Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Sam and Peggy Grossman Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Marshall Frankel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marshall Frankel 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $546k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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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
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines