Ohio · Private foundation
The Sam J Frankino Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 110
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- 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, 13% of the organizations The Sam J Frankino Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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 | 84 | $3.3M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 82 | $2.8M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $2.6M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $2.7M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 110 | $3.5M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $2.8M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $3.1M | 46% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $2.3M | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilmour Academy Inc | $4,182,091 | 9 | n/a |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $1,189,848 | 7 | 0% |
| Kidsanctuary Campus Inc | $1,015,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | $768,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hands Together Inc | $480,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museum of Ohio Inc | $395,261 | 5 | 29% |
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hattie Larlham Foundation | $310,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Josephs Home | $215,495 | 9 | 6% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $206,341 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 147 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sam J Frankino Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The George Gund Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland
How this is measured
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About The Sam J Frankino Foundation
- How much does The Sam J Frankino Foundation give?
- The Sam J Frankino Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $3,445,022 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 110 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sam J Frankino Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Sam J Frankino Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gilmour Academy Inc ($4.2M), Cleveland Museum of Art ($1.2M), Kidsanctuary Campus Inc ($1.0M).
- Does The Sam J Frankino Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sam J Frankino Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sam J Frankino Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Swagelok Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation.
- Where is The Sam J Frankino Foundation based?
- The Sam J Frankino Foundation is based in OH.
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