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The Richard and Tamberly Frain Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Richard and Tamberly Frain 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.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$225kHealth$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kEducation$28kHuman Services$25kEmployment$20kInternational$5kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION$20,000
MAYO CLINIC$20,000
ROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC$10,000
ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN$2,500
HOPE MEDIA GROUP$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $20k → 9%MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%HOPE MEDIA GROUP: $1k → 16%FALCOS CHILDREN AFRICA INC: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC: $5k → 15%ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 8%LAST CHANCE HOUSE INC: $2k → 6%THE ED POSH-VILLAGE LINKS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5k → 7%SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $25k → 14%HOPECAM INC: $5k → 6%SALVATION ARMY & ITS COMPONENTS: $25k → 9%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $20k → 9%HOPE MEDIA GROUP: $1k → 16%SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $25k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $20k → 9%SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $25k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $20k → 9%SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $25k → 14%SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $15k → 14%SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $10k → 14%ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $10k → 14%ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $3k → 14%ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $3k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $1k → 14%CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 5 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$303k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-10%

Still filing today

80%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +67%
  • CP
    CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • EC
    ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY & ITS COMPONENTS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MF
    MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +36%
  • FC
    FALCOS CHILDREN AFRICA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Loyola University Medical Center

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…

Health
2
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
3
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
6
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
7
Loyola University Health System

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Children's Specialty Group Inc

The mission of children's specialty group, inc. ("csg") is to provide the highest quality specialty health care services to infants, children and adolescents and to advance the effectiveness of health care through education and the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $225,000 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETYMAYO CLINIC: $60,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · HealthROYAL DAMES OF CA…+1 more: $1,100 · HealthSALVATION ARMY & ITS COMPONENTS: $25,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY &…MAYO CLINIC: $20,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICHEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · OtherHEARING LOSS ASS…HOPECAM INC: $5,000 · OtherHOPECAM INC+2 more: $3,500 · OtherCHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Public BenefitCHICAGO P…ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20,500 · EducationTHE ED POSH-VILLAGE LINKS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC: $5,000 · EducationST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC: $2,500 · EducationMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFALCOS CHILDREN AFRICA INC: $5,000 · Religion
Animals$225,000Health$71,100Other$68,500Public Benefit$40,000Education$33,000Philanthropy$20,000Religion$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFALCOS CHILDREN AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MEDIA GROUP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAST CHANCE HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Richard and Tamberly Frain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard and Tamberly Frain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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