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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 FY2024still arriving
161
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Animals$70MArts & Culture$14MEducation$12MEnvironment$2.3MPhilanthropy$890kYouth Development$586kScience & Tech$562kHealth$539kOther$0
02FY2024 · 161 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k82 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+20 grants · $20M
$20,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$325M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$2,000,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$2,000,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$2,000,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,500,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,500,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,500,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,500,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$750,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$500,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$500,000
TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION$500,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMONWEAL: $7k → 8%HAWAII PEOPLE'S FUND: $2k → 9%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $10k → 9%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $5k → 9%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $5k → 9%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $15k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $15k → 9%POSSIBILITY LABS: $25k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $8k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $5k → 10%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%MERCY HOUSING MOUNTAIN PLAINS: $10k → 12%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%POSSIBILITY LABS: $5k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $5k → 10%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Sidney E Frank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Sidney E Frank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$92M · 164 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

164 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164
94

Total granted

$92M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+55%

Still filing today

84%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $831k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • TR
    TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $69M · revenue +113% · 99% of their budget
  • SK
    STORM KING ART CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +26%
  • AB
    ADRIAN BRINKERHOFF POETRY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +67% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PANASONIC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $219k · revenue +31%
  • MA
    MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tippet Rise Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsPublic Library OperationsSchool District FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Pregnancy Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Military Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Elementary Literacy TutoringYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%74%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/245
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,515

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.

05the grantee network

234 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. 234 of the 303 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
232/234
Grantees still filing
176/234
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION — $69,250,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPET RISE FOUNDATION+4 more — $681,500 · PhilanthropySTORM KING ART CENTER — $4,352,500 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING AR…ADRIAN BRINKERHOFF POETRY FOUNDATION — $2,950,000 · Arts & CultureADRIAN BRINKE…THE COLBURN SCHOOL — $1,491,750 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN S…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $625,000 · Arts & Culture+37 more — $2,962,616 · Arts & Culture+37 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $6,987,750 · Community Improvement+4 more — $450,000 · Community ImprovementKERE FOUNDATION — $350,000 · OtherAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC (DBA IRISH ARTS CENTER) — $301,000 · OtherPANASONIC FOUNDATION INC — $219,120 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $245,000 · Other+90 more — $5,243,736 · OtherCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $510,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $330,500 · EducationLead Liberated — $325,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $310,000 · EducationNEW LEADERS INC — $300,000 · EducationOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $300,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $268,725 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $235,000 · EducationVALLEY SETTLEMENT — $215,000 · EducationBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC — $185,000 · Education+25 more — $1,326,285 · EducationOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $260,000 · EnvironmentOUTDOOR AFRO — $210,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR RURAL ENTERPRISE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $112,500 · EnvironmentNatureServe — $95,000 · EnvironmentMERWIN CONSERVANCY INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $40,000 · Environment+6 more — $139,000 · EnvironmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PINKNEY FOUNDATION — $34,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOMETHING GOOD IN THE WORLD INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$69,931,500Arts & Culture$12,381,866Community Improvement$7,437,750Other$6,358,856Education$4,305,510Environment$1,181,500Youth Development$729,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIPPET RISE FOUNDATION — $69,250,000 over 6y, 99% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $6,987,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $4,352,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetADRIAN BRINKERHOFF POETRY FOUNDATION — $2,950,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $1,491,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $625,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $510,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $334,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $330,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLead Liberated — $325,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $310,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $300,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $300,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $275,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $268,725 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $260,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $245,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $240,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $235,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetVALLEY SETTLEMENT — $215,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetOUTDOOR AFRO — $210,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $201,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM — $192,050 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC — $185,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL — $185,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPlaywrights Project — $185,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $171,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $163,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $160,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $159,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $152,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC — $150,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ COLORADO — $150,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game Fund — $149,700 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $135,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetEAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY — $135,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS — $135,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC — $134,316 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $130,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $125,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
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 TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ADRIAN BRINKERHOFF POETRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lead Liberated ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PANASONIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds OUTDOOR AFRO ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Playwrights Project ↗
  • Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
  • Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…Marin Community Found…Montana Community Fou…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Gates Family Foundati…ImpactassetsincEast Bay Community Fo…The William & Flora H…The San Francisco Fou…
Rose Community FoundationCO40.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sidney E Frank 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Verse Video Education — 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • O Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sidney E Frank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sidney E Frank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 303 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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