· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k82 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+20 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| TIPPET RISE FOUNDATION | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Sidney E Frank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $831k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTIPPET RISE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $69M · revenue +113% · 99% of their budget
- SKSTORM KING ART CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +26%
- ABADRIAN BRINKERHOFF POETRY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +67% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- PFPANASONIC FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $219k · revenue +31%
- MAMARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $150k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKLEYone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
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…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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)
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.
How this is measured
234 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Playwrights Project ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- 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 REACH OUT AND READ COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sidney E Frank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sidney E Frank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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