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ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being Open Library of Richmond Inc ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$651k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$7.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Ulrich & Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health does

Programs

  1. Frank program: provides consultation, creation, delivery, and dissemination of learning materials to over 2,000 institutions and to learners in every country. Nextgenu.org, a learning platform of the frank foundation, provided learning materials in healthcare and health sciences to learners from over 200 countries. Learners through more than 2100 universities and institutions have used the resources of the foundation. A degree program consultation was performed with the university of the incarnate word school of medicine and the new york institute of technology school of medicine.

    $281,356 spent
  2. Steps:the primary purpose of the stem teacher/student education for primary schools (steps) program is to improve educational outcomes in stem (science, technology, engineering, and math) for primary school students. For the pilot phase of the steps program, we have partnered with benin, cameroon, and the democratic republic of congo to make the curriculum available to primary school students and teachers worldwide. The project impacts 18 schools, 143 teachers, and thousands of students.

    $190,428 spent
  3. Public health u (phu), the frank foundation's facilitated learning community, provides free and extremely low-cost public health e-learning for students and professionals in low- to middle-income countries. Phu partners with euclid (euclid university) and the foundation for professional development (fpd) to offer a master's degree in public health (mph) with various concentrations, such as global health and substance use and mental health.

    $157,333 spent
  4. Humanitarian u (hu): the humanitarianu.org initiative provides professional online certification and training to humanitarian workers worldwide. Our mission is to prepare professionals to work in disaster and humanitarian response, promote and share best practices and standards in the field, and partner and connect with leading organizations, academic institutions, and emergency medical teams. It has trained 30,000 humanitarians globally and was able to obtain hpass certification in 12 of its courses.

    $74,047 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($611k) Net assets 100 ($16M)2020 Revenue 68 ($813k) Expenses 116 ($706k) Net assets 101 ($16M)2021 Revenue 126 ($1.5M) Expenses 144 ($879k) Net assets 129 ($20M)2022 Revenue 688 ($8.2M) Expenses 342 ($2.1M) Net assets 130 ($20M)2023 Revenue -68 ($-814878) Expenses 2418 ($15M) Net assets 43 ($6.7M)2024 Revenue 46 ($548k) Expenses 135 ($827k) Net assets 43 ($6.8M)2025 Revenue 54 ($651k) Expenses 131 ($803k) Net assets 45 ($7.0M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (54)Expenses (131)Net assets (45)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $7.2M (−66%).

$16M
$16M
$20M
$21M
$7.2M
$6.9M
$7.1M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Miriam Chickering

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed114891010
Joined···+5+2+2+1
No longer listed···1111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH’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.

Where its funders are

ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

ME

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH?
ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being Open Library of Richmond Inc ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,000 in grants to ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH.
Who is the largest funder of ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH?
Open Library of Richmond Inc is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ULRICH & RUTH FRANK FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing