Illinois · Private foundation
The Raymond Frankel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $951,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Raymond Frankel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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 | 57 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $2.6M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $3.0M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $2.9M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $2.3M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $2.0M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $1.8M | 56% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.3M | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Academy of Arts & Sciences | $2,910,890 | 8 | 4% |
| Fuente Latina Inc | $473,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky | $400,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $350,187 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Reichman University Inc | $335,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Research - Eval - Promoting Org Respon & Transparency - Report - Inc | $325,000 | 7 | 4% |
| American Friends of Migdal OHR | $308,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Israel Project | $280,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Project on Government Oversight Inc | $255,000 | 4 | 1% |
| New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence | $210,000 | 5 | 78% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Raymond Frankel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Dock Street Foundation · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Adelson Family Foundation · Fjc · Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · Van Strum Foundation 8833023 · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Raymond Frankel Foundation
- How much does The Raymond Frankel Foundation give?
- The Raymond Frankel Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $3,937,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Raymond Frankel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), International (22%), Social Science (15%).
- Who are The Raymond Frankel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Academy of Arts & Sciences ($2.9M), Fuente Latina Inc ($473k), Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky ($400k).
- Does The Raymond Frankel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Raymond Frankel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Raymond Frankel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dock Street Foundation, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, The Llandaff Family Trust.
- Where is The Raymond Frankel Foundation based?
- The Raymond Frankel Foundation is based in IL.
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