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The Morris I Franco 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$350kHealth$3kReligion$2kArts & Culture$623Community Improvement$200Human Services$170Food & Nutrition$136Recreation & Sports$125Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$18,791
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various available Upon Request$18,791
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Jewish Communal Fund: $350k → 17%Various available Upon Request: $19k → 10%Various available Upon Request: $14k → 10%Various available Upon Request: $14k → 10%Various available Upon Request: $11k → 10%Various available Upon Request: $10k → 10%SEE SCHEDULE: $10k → 10%Various available Upon Request: $9k → 10%SEE SCHEDULE: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
5
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
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Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
9
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

11
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
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Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 59 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.

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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $350,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyVarious available Upon Request — $77,483 · OtherVarious available Upo…+40 more — $5,006 · Other+40 moreARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $150 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $100 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $75 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $50 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $50 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $50 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $525 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10 · Arts & CultureWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $50 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $50 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC — $25 · InternationalSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $25 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $10 · Environment
Philanthropy$350,100Other$82,489Health$675Arts & Culture$535Human Services$150International$75Recreation & Sports$25Environment$10

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Morris I Franco Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
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    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to The Morris I Franco Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Morris I Franco 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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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