· Private foundation
The Raymond Frankel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $951,200 |
| BRIDGING THE GAP AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $664,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES | $350,187 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE | $267,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDI | $250,000 |
| CROWN CENTER BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| MIT | $120,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSITE | $90,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST AND HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | $75,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST OPTIONS | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| FUENTE LATINA | $70,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR GUN VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS | $60,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $613k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FLFuente Latina Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $473k · revenue +301%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY6× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +38%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $335k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- LOLETTER OF THE LAW INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -4%
- AAAASone grant, 2019 · $75k
- ICISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Promote understanding and support for the people of israel
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…
To provide assistance to organizations in the old city of jerusalem and the ancient city of david.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
90 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. 90 of the 140 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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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.
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
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Raymond Frankel 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% of income from government
- New Haven Ballet — 1% of income from government
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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