GrantmakersNorth Carolina

Stanley & Dorothy Frank Family

Greensboro, NC · EIN 56-6513308. Reported 87 grants totalling $3,753,616 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$3,753,616granted, 2021-2024
91%of grantees funded again the next year
14%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Stanley & Dorothy Frank Family, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 91% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,564 and $66,075; the smallest was $5,153 and the largest $310,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
20 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
16 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
11 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship IncGreensboro, NC$515,000442024
Well-Spring Ret CommunityGreensboro, NC$450,000332024
Appalachian State University - AdvancementBoone, NC$337,516332023
Guilford Technical Community College Foundation IncJamestown, NC$334,894442024
Temple EmanuelGreensboro, NC$271,782442024
Guilford CollegeGreensboro, NC$261,865442024
United Way of Greater Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$235,000442024
Action GreensboroGreensboro, NC$175,000332024
Wake Forest UniversityWinstonsalem, NC$174,577442024
The Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating CorporationGreensboro, NC$135,000442024
Lutheran ChapelChina Grove, NC$112,019442024
North American Lutheran ChurchLandis, NC$112,019442024
Appalachian State University Foundation IncBoone, NC$110,557112024
Adult Center for Enrichment IncGreensboro, NC$100,000112021
Greensboro Jewish FederationGreensboro, NC$64,365442024
Authoracare CollectiveBurlington, NC$60,517442024
Ebenezer Lutheran ChurchGreensboro, NC$52,501442024
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra IncorporatedGreensboro, NC$43,500332024
Senior Resources of GuilfordGreensboro, NC$42,000442024
The Salvation ArmyBrookhaven, GA$36,951542024
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncGreensboro, NC$25,000112022
Greensboro Police FoundationGreensboro, NC$25,000112021
Boy Scouts of AmericaGreensboro, NC$21,001442024
Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont IncHickory, NC$21,001442024
Salvation Army World Service Office SawsoAlexandria, VA$15,550222024
Uncg Office of Advancement ServicesGreensboro, NC$10,634222022
Unc-G Excellence FoundationGreensboro, NC$5,214112023
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Investment Fund IncGreensboro, NC$5,153112024

22 of 28 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
5 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org
Religion
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202121$937,460$25,000
202222$886,057$26,749
202322$975,633$26,424
202422$954,466$26,319

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

North Carolina
$3.7M
Georgia
$37K
Virginia
$16K

Down to the city

Greensboro, NC
$2.4M
Boone, NC
$448K
Jamestown, NC
$335K
Winstonsalem, NC
$175K
China Grove, NC
$112K
Landis, NC
$112K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation of Greater20 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsWell-Spring Retirement Community Inc12 shared recipientsTannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Stanley & Dorothy Frank Family's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 301 North Elm Street 100, Greensboro, NC, 27401.

EIN 56-6513308 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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