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· Private foundation
The Richard and Tamberly Frain Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$116k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
4
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Animals$225kHealth$61kEducation$31kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Benefit$20kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$45k
02FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY$50,000
- SALVATION ARMY & ITS COMPONENTS$25,000
- MAYO CLINIC$20,000
- CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION$20,000
- HOPE MEDIA GROUP$1,000
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 69% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$321k · 4 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
7
Total granted
$321k
$43k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+44%
Still filing today
75%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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
- SASHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +67%
- MCMAYO CLINIC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +29%
- ECELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- MFMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +228%
- FCFALCOS CHILDREN AFRICA INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
- HIHOPECAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +289%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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
University of Chicago Medical Center
Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…
Health
2
Illinois Children's Healthcare
Human Services
3
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
Health
4
Loyola University of Chicago
We are one of the nation's largest jesuit, catholic universities with over 17,000 students. we work to expand knowledge through learning, justice, and faith.
Education
5
Presence Chicago Hospitals Network
To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.
Human Services
6
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
7
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who
The chicago lighthouse strives to provide quality educational, clinical, (continued in schedule o) rehabilitation and vocational services to people who are blind, visually impaired, multi-disabled or veterans.
Human Services
8
House of Hope Midwest
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
Human Services
9
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council
The organization provides various services to the hospital community and the general public, including the operation of the illinois poison control center.
Health
10
The Christ Hospital
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Health
11
Children's Hospital of Michigan
To support pediatric research, education, community benefit programs, and other (see sch o) initiatives to improve the health of children in michigan.
Health
12
The Children's Mercy Hospital
Excellence in healthcare for children
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Last Chance House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Animals$225,000Health$61,100Other$47,500Education$30,500Philanthropy$20,000Public Benefit$20,000Religion$5,000
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.
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FALCOS CHILDREN AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ED POSH-VILLAGE LINKS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
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.
Arthur J Gallagher FoundationIL12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organisation The Richard and Tamberly Frain 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 465275687 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Richard and Tamberly Frain Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Richard and Tamberly Frain Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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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