Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
M FRANCES INC
M FRANCES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,465,184 to it, the largest being LEE INITIATIVE INC ($1,464,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
M FRANCES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The James Beard Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Feed the Soul Foundationshared funders
- National Restaurant Associationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of M FRANCES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
M FRANCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund M FRANCES INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
M FRANCES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The James Beard Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Feed the Soul Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- National Restaurant Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nielsen-Massey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sye Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seeding the Future Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food and Nutrition Resources Foundaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Callahan-Dee Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yum-O Organization Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like M FRANCES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lee Initiative · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for M FRANCES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds M FRANCES INC?
- M FRANCES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,465,184 to it, the largest being LEE INITIATIVE INC ($1,464,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does M FRANCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,465,184 in grants to M FRANCES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of M FRANCES INC?
- LEE INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,464,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like M FRANCES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing