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The Stephen & Elisabeth Frank 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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
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.

Religion$836kPhilanthropy$410kEducation$248kCivil Rights$44kHealth$22kArts & Culture$12kInternational$10kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$37,796
LIBERALE JUKISCHE GEMEINDE HAMBURG$27,000
WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM$25,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL$18,000
TEMPLE BETH AM$15,875
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$5,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$2,704
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA$2,000
CAJE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION$1,000
AJC AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$500
SISTERHOOD OF TEMPLE BETH AM$180
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.

US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($1.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($325k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEBREW COLLEGE RABINIC SCHOOL: $2k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL: $18k → 16%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1k → 11%BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL: $18k → 16%TEMPLE BETH AM: $76k → 15%saul mirowitz jewish community school: $40k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL: $18k → 16%TEMPLE BETH AM: $66k → 15%SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $28k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL: $18k → 16%TEMPLE BETH AM: $66k → 15%SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL: $18k → 16%TEMPLE BETH AM: $66k → 15%SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL: $18k → 16%TEMPLE BETH AM: $66k → 15%SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%TEMPLE BETH AM: $16k → 15%SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $25k → 17%TEMPLE BETH AM: $16k → 15%TEMPLE BETH AM: $16k → 15%WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: $15k → 17%temple beth am: $9k → 15%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $78k → 15%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $62k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $42k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $38k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $37k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $37k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $36k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $35k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $21k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $16k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $3k → 15%CENTRAL AGENCY FOR JEWISH EDUCATION: $2k → 15%SCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $10k → 15%SCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $10k → 15%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $2k → 15%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $2k → 15%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $2k → 15%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.

Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($325k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Hungary$298k · 7 grants
Germany$27k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of The Stephen & Elisabeth Frank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 48%.

The Stephen & Elisabeth Frank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 24 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

46%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • SM
    SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +0%
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $108k · revenue +59%
  • SH
    SCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • MC
    MILLER CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY JUDAIC STUDIES FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE RABINIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +4%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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7
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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8
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
9
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
10
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
11
Hillel At Washington University in St Louis

The mission of hillel at washington university in st louis is to be a catalyst for jewish life among college students in st louis. we connect students with one another and with jewish culture and traditions through service and social…

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12
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 36 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)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH AM: $395,825 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AMLIBERALE JUDISCHE GEMEINDE HAMBURG: $298,000 · OtherLIBERALE JUDISCHE GEMEINDE HAMBURGBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $108,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INCTHE WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM LTD: $40,000 · Other+20 more: $76,225 · Other+20 moreGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $409,126 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATI…+2 more: $1,150 · PhilanthropySAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL: $217,708 · EducationSAUL MIROWITZ J…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $12,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureLOCUST PROJECTS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $500 · Arts & CultureBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · International+1 more: $300 · InternationalCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $4,000 · Religion
Other$918,050Philanthropy$410,276Education$217,708Health$13,000Arts & Culture$10,500International$10,300Religion$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $409,126 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL: $217,708 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $108,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOCUST PROJECTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER MIAMI SECTION: $1,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $150 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.

  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds LOCUST PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER MIAMI SECTION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Stephen & Elisabeth Frank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen & Elisabeth Frank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 36 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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