New York · Private foundation
The Sidney E Frank Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $23M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 161
- Grants FY2024
- 115
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 115 to 143
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $325M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Sidney E Frank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 122 | $21M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 115 | $21M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 132 | $16M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 135 | $16M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 126 | $8.6M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 143 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tippet Rise Foundation | $69,250,000 | 6 | 99% |
| Storm King Art Center | $4,352,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation | $2,950,000 | 6 | 100% |
| The Colburn School | $1,491,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $625,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Connecticut College | $510,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $330,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lead Liberated | $325,000 | 5 | 6% |
| New Leaders Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $300,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 232 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sidney E Frank Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · East Bay Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Sidney E Frank Foundation
- How much does The Sidney E Frank Foundation give?
- The Sidney E Frank Foundation reported 161 grants totaling $22,545,763 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 115 and 143 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Sidney E Frank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (67%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Sidney E Frank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Tippet Rise Foundation ($69M), Storm King Art Center ($4.4M), Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation ($3.0M).
- Does The Sidney E Frank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sidney E Frank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sidney E Frank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is The Sidney E Frank Foundation based?
- The Sidney E Frank Foundation is based in NY.
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